Re: Critique available

2000-11-03 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispere d: | On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:14:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: | Not in the p5p sense, at least. Regardless of the levels of disapproval, | generally the disapproval was voiced with at least some courtesy. p5p

Re: ANNOUNCE: smokers@perl.org Discussion of perl's daily build and smoke test

2001-02-20 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | PIT - Perl Intergration Testers | | Alan Burlison Not to pick on Alan, God knows he's been doing us all a real favor lately with the leaktest stuff. But can we please stop crossposting

Re: ANNOUNCE: smokers@perl.org Discussion of perl's daily build andsmoke test

2001-02-21 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Richard Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]# | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] # bleeding edge? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] # not very exciting... | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] # hmmm? People, please trim your

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-15 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered: | Peter Scott writes: | : So, I wonder aloud, do we want to signify that degree of change with a more | : dramatic change in the name? | | I'm inclined to think that people will be more likely to migrate if | they

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispere d: | All Perl programmers, including lone ones, really should be using CPAN as | much as they can, which means that the parts of the language needed to use | CPAN modules are part of the understanding you need. This

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Trond Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] whis pered: | You don't need to know any of the modules in CPAN to use perl, but once | you learn how to use search.cpan.org, your productivity will most | probably increase dramatically. Just like knowing how to use the |

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jarkko Hietaniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered : | Ummm, I must have missed the have to know Unicode, have to to know OO, | have to know references part in the Apoc2. Could you show it to me? Atoms- Unicode. If everything is Unicode, you're going to have

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] whi spered: | This is off-topic for perl6. Objection, your honor! This is a logical extention of part of the discussion. If we're discussing what is wrong with perl5 to make perl6 better differentiating between