Entirely possible he's right. But nothing is perfect, and I would
never say POE is. But even at it's most succinct level, Evan's
diatribe slipped from funny to malicious, and pretty quick. I'm not
exactly the smartest perl programmer on the block, the fucked up shit
I do with POE not withstanding, but it's simply not as bad as all
this. There's irony, there's exaggeration, and there's wrong. I think
Evan is wrong, and I hope he realizes that.
- billn
On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Todd Chapman wrote:
Ok everyone. Evan made a mistake. He was probably making a joke but it
didn't go over well. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. I hope
he uses POE as the start of making something really great. If not we
still have the POE we know and love.
-Todd
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Bill Nash <bi...@billn.net> wrote:
None, any, or all of this may be true.
But I got laid this week.
And built three new POE engines. It was really easy because I'm
smart.
- billn
On Apr 27, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Evan Carroll wrote:
Dear POE,
I'm sick of pulling my hair out because of your 1989 coding
practice.
I've begun packing your bags to send you to Moose-landville. My goal
is to totally deprive you of blessed arrays, and closures in new. I
personal yearn for the day when you lack the confusing nonsense that
gives you your identity. The problem is other modules don't look
like
you for a reason -- you're ugly.
You're actually worse than ugly, you're hideous. You're the ugly
bastard brother of the ugly duck. While you aver that smaller, more
modular functions are better for an event driven systems, at your
core
you're black with deception. You have the longest most ugly and hard
to follow monolithic logic ever. But, wait I think I'm playing this
down... See, you're more than just one type of ugly: you've actually
got all the unique colors of ugly; but, unlike a rainbow they're are
in no predictable order. That's right, your capriciously ugly.
Above and beyond blessed arrays, why for the love of god do you feel
the need to strive for object-orientation through "components." What
is a component anyway?!? Why can't I just go my POE-
>new( kernel_args
)->wheel( wheel_args )->add_to_wheel( new_event ). Why do I have to
read to just figure out your obscure coding methodology? Why can't
you
just be like everyone else. How do your individual components talk
to
each other, why is it so hard to figure out what your doing when you
fail to do what I want? You act like Perl's objects are an unfit for
life, but in the end my code just looks like a soup of disassociated
components that sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Why is it so
hard
to publish a module that attaches to the POE Kernel if it is there,
and if it isn't operates in a sane fashion...
Join me in slaying the dragon:
http://github.com/EvanCarroll/MooseyPoopoe/
(All of the POE::Kernel::Filters are migrated and running under the
test suite)
--
Evan Carroll
System Lord of the Internets
