Re: Perl-QA needs administrative help

2001-02-15 Thread schwern
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear on the "mailing list organization" bit. What the job really is, someone to spot out-of-control threads (for instance, the "par" discussion on perl6-language), split off a new mailing list for it (by requesting from Ask), appointing a chair (probably the person

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

2001-02-18 Thread schwern
CPU ticks, and RC5 has gotten old, step forward. The weirder the setup the better. Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help). Archive is at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL

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

2001-02-19 Thread schwern
No. This is silly. End of discussion. PS I'm also an active non-smoker. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread schwern
/Community License/ -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One

Re: [OT] Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread schwern
happened to a major Open Source project, this doesn't worry me. The license squabbling between the various BSD's is similar, but they're all still Open. where would Perl6 go? Same place its going right now, as there's no code. :) -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
ring/ Also, don't you want to refer more to 'unit tests', rather than regression testing snip They could be called "Mr. Wosabe tests" for all I care. Terminology was never my strong point (above rant is the rare occasion). :) -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwer

RFC - Prototype RFC Implementations - Seperating the men from the boys.

2000-09-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
I've an idea to cut down and weed out the huge number of RFCs we have. Its written out below. =pod =head1 TITLE Prototype implementations for RFCs. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Sep 4 21:11:56 EDT 2000 Version:1 Mailing List

Traffic lights and language design

2001-05-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
. A perfect example is Larry's module solution to the Perl 6 vs Perl 5 interpretation (although it still needs a few extra lights here and there to make it really work). Yep, my brain is done with this. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
. We're definately providing some sort of Perl 5 translator/adaptor system and we're definately writing it. In fact, it was hotly debated on perl6-language just recently exactly how to do it cleanly. Have I missed something? Have you missed something? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
this somewhere? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
'testing' branch has been going on for quite some time. FreeBSD comes to mind, among others. FreeBSD is also historically *very* slow about upgrading perl. They were one of the last hold-outs to upgrading /usr/bin/perl from perl4. Please stop. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED

You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
, there will be something for programs as well. For further details, see: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00285.html -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Let me check my notes...

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
On some date someone wrote: : option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc, : and adjust code in advance. It should be possible to do most of this externally as a B module. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality

SECOND SYSTEM EFFECT!

2001-05-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
a second system, its the Nth system. The exact value of N doesn't really matter, we're still very much in danger of the second system effect. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One How can I

perlsmall (was Re: Perl, the new generation)

2001-05-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
write up a new man page, perlsmall or something, describing just those useful features of Perl as a small utility language (enhanced shell scripting) and ignoring the useless stuff like OO and threads. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
days when men were men, Perl was small and 640K was enough for anyone. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One ...and I pull out the Magnum from under the desk where I keep it in case

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
can't find at the moment. Maybe it was in TPJ. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Follow me to certain death! http://www.unamerican.com/

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
helping. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], start up a perlsmall man page. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One How can I stoop so low? Years of practise, that's how. It's been hard going but now I

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
this topic to death. Point is, Perl's installation isn't any worse than Java and possibly better. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Schwern Unit: a positive but insignificant quantity

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
it easier to do those last two is a good way to go. That an Ingy's NAPC idea. Like I said, we're working on it. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Only mindless violence can raise my