Quoting Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:38:18AM +, Leo Lapworth wrote:
If you were trying to replace search.cpan.org/foo/bar - a metacpan
URL (the main use of search.metacpan.org I think), we now use the
'search.mcpan.org' domain,
So if you are on:
Quoting Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 04:29:10PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
[...]
Why don't any of the reviews of these places talk about wifi? Ugh.
Because almost nowhere offers it, and of those that do, it's usually beneath
contempt. 3G actually works in
On 08/10/14 20:11, Joel Bernstein wrote:
Are the films not considered canonical?
The two films aren't canonical. They are loose remakes of the first two
Dalek stories from the TV series. With Peter Cushing playing a human
inventor called Doctor Who.
Dave...
Quoting Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org:
Dear Dr Who experts (I'm sure that there are many here)...
IIRC there's a scene in an episode of Dr Who (in Tom Baker's time) where
the Doctor escapes by climbing up through a hatch in the TARDIS ceiling,
calling down a one liner to the Daleks stuck below
Quoting Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk:
In the heady enthusiasm of all the fun things we are doing at this
year's London Perl Workshop I may have missed telling you all when
the workshop will be
London Perl Workshop: Saturday 7th November 09:00-18:30 - University
of
Quoting Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com:
On 26 September 2014 13:45, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
Updated my bash on CentOS 6.5 this morning so your test fails:
# env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c echo this is a test
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash:
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
There's a second vulnerability that escapes the first bug patch.
env X=() { (a)=\\ bash -c '/dev/stdout date'
If this prints the date, you still have a hole where bash can write content
to arbitrary files. ( And this trick somehow makes it write the date to
31, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
I need some HTML/Javascript help.
See http://dave.org.uk/grid.html.
On this page you have a list of courses (Course 1 to Course 6) and three
time periods (T1 to T3). The idea is that each person will select one
course for each of the three
implement this?
Dave...
[1] And, yes, I know I'd need to implement the same checks server-side
as well.
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Quoting Alex Balhatchet ka...@slackwise.net:
Hi Dermot,
You have a few problems with your code:
1. First argument to map is a block
[ snip]
3. Some mis-placed commas
[ snip ]
Actually, map has two forms.
map BLOCK LIST
map EXPR, LIST
I assume that Dermot was using the second
are generally understood to
be roughly equivalent. :-)
I think he was asking how women stack up against Daves in the subset of
“London.pm leaders”.
Daves have almost certainly got that one nailed, surely?
It's one-all surely?
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On 09/08/14 10:38, James Laver wrote:
On 9 Aug 2014, at 09:31, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
It's one-all surely?
Are you seriously saying that you’re the only Leader we’ve had
calledDave? That seems… implausible, given Dave distribution.
Off the top of my head...
* Dave
* Paul
Quoting Paul \LeoNerd\ Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:31:57 +0100
Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
You know that the same flight number flies on different days? :-)
Huh. I always thought that a flight number always mapped to a given day
of the week as well
.
Gianni: It seems coincidentally I'm on the same flights as you; BA0890
+ BA0819 but you've entered it in Wednesday on the Arrivals, and myself
and Léon have put Thursday - you might want to double-check yours.
You know that the same flight number flies on different days? :-)
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had lunch with BBC employees (including
Schmoo) at least a couple of times :-)
Dave...
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Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
Quoting Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com:
Hi everyone,
London Perl Mongers will hold its next technical meeting in the Brockway
room at Conway Hall on Thursday 24th July, doors opening at 18:30 for a
19:00 start.
Facebook event, for those who organise
Quoting Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com:
Hi everyone,
London Perl Mongers will hold its next technical meeting in the Brockway
room at Conway Hall on Thursday 24th July, doors opening at 18:30 for a
19:00 start.
Facebook event, for those who organise their life that way.
Quoting mer...@stonehenge.com:
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes:
Randal Shall we aim to begin around 6pm, and people can wander in as needed?
Randal Or does someone have a better idea of where to meet nearby?
And is this mic on? Or am I drinking by myself? :(
From
Quoting Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com:
Sue Spence wrote
It's been a month or so since the last Thursday dim sum, so I would like to
propose meeting up for some dumplings, steamed buns and other tasty treats.
FYI: I'm on the digest form of the list and it turned up in my email
at Thursday
Quoting William Blunn bill+london...@blunn.org:
On 06/03/2014 11:47, mascip wrote:
Thank you for giving Perl mongers free talks Damian
Free? I thought they were paid for by the sponsor
The sponsors will pay for (or donate) the room for the talk. And
perhaps some light refreshment.
But
On 04/03/14 21:33, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
Does something exist?
If it doesn't does anyone want to help make it happen?
I *really* don't want to have to write the code all over again ten times...
Something like Web::Scraper, perhaps?
https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Scraper
Dave...
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for
general Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries.
There isn't one. Perl mailing lists are all specialised in some way.
Dave...
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
On 12/02/2014 15:38, Chris Devers wrote:
Is there a main general Perl mailing list?
What's the actual question?
What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for
general Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries.
I've answered that.
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Lane
Well, if not details exactly, certainly enough of a clue to work it out :)
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
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On 17/01/2014 10:18, Andrew wrote:
Looking to try using an Integrated Development Environment.
Is there an industry standard everyone uses and I should get familiar with,
or will any do?
Perl programmers don't tend to use an IDE. Most of us seem to use vi(m)
or emacs.
I've heard people say
stepped up to the plate, I nominate the Bag o’
Nails. Or rather Dave Cross nominates it and I’m announcing it. Meet
you there around 5:15. Everyone else can feel free to pop along as
well.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/45/453/Bag_O_Nails/Victoria
I'm suggesting it as my default pub
Quoting Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com:
But here's the (possibly unusual) request part: I've been studying
Russian for a bit, and would like to find and visit an area with a
preponderance of Russian businesses. Not to practice, goodness no,
I'm still very weak at it. Rather, I wanted to
Am I right in thinking that we have people who work at Bytemark on this
list? If that's correct, then could one of them please contact me
off-list. I think that they could help a friend of mine with some problems.
Thanks,
Dave...
Quoting James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
Sent from my iPhone
On 10 Sep 2013, at 08:50, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote:
This approach has exponential complexity. Definitely infeasible.
Not necessarily. How many courses are there Dave?
About 30.
Dave...
Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
I have offered to help a friend[1] solve what sounds like an
interesting problem.
[ snip ]
Thanks for all the suggestions.
It turned out that I only had two or three hours to do this, so I
didn't have time to research any of the algorithms that you
Quoting Pierre M piema...@gmail.com:
Arg, too late.
Each student goes to 2 classes then? That would mean that you can assign to
infinite size classes all students who chose it as 1st or 2nd choice.
That should reduce the problem domain quite a bit.
But (as I suspected), infinite classes
Quoting James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Not necessarily. How many courses are there Dave?
About 30.
Sorry, that was in the original email. I meant to ask how many students.
387.
I have offered to help a friend[1] solve what sounds like an
interesting problem.
She has a list of courses that are offered. Some of these courses have
a maximum class size and others are effectively infinite (I don't
believe that second part, but hey!) There are about thirty of these
Quoting James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net wrote:
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:30:00PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Prolog. Facts and rules then go solve.
no
Actually, Prolog was my first thought too. The major limitation is
On 08/23/2013 05:32 PM, gvim wrote:
On 23/08/2013 16:40, Dave Cross wrote:
In your original email, you said:
The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters when
opened in Vim
A pound sign is a non-ASCII character.
By pound sign do you mean £ or #? I don't quite
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
On 22/08/2013 17:26, Dave Cross wrote:
There's a pound sign at the end of that line. A3. That's your problem.
Thanks. Appreciated.
In your original email, you said:
The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters
when opened in Vim
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
Can anyone who also uses Ruby enlighten me? For benchmarking
purposes this Perl 5.16 script works fine parsing a large Maildir
folder:
use 5.016;
use autodie;
my $dir = 'my/mail/path';
chdir $dir;
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
On 22/08/2013 17:05, Paul Makepeace wrote:
How about when you hexdump it?
I wouldn't know but here's the result of hexdump -C (literal text
removed from line end):
0560 75 67 68 74 20 66 6f 72 20 75 6e 64 65 72 20 a3
There's a pound sign at the
Quoting Diana Donca diana.do...@evozon.com:
Hi,
I'm Diana Donca, member of cluj.pm. I'm in London till September
30th, but since I'm working Monday to Friday, I think the weekend
would be best for hanging out.
Look forward to meeting London.pm community.
Hi Diana,
Most of us also work
On the 6th August 1998 twelve Perl programmers met in the cellar bar
of the Cittie of Yorke. It was the first meeting of the London Perl
Mongers. We'd been chatting on a mailing list for a few months before
that, but this was our first face-to-face meeting.
The night seemed to to pretty
Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
On the 6th August 1998 twelve Perl programmers met in the cellar bar
of the Cittie of Yorke.
Trying to remember the twelve people who came. I'm struggling at nine.
Dave Cross
Richard Clamp
Dave Cantrell
Robin Houston
Kass Schmidt
Steve Mynott
Leo
On 28/07/13 18:08, Peter Corlett wrote:
Hi,
I was idly peering at my one remaining bottle of London.pm ale from
2008, and it occurred to me that we are now 15 years old. Is there
anything planned to celebrate this anniversary?
More accurately, Tues 6th August will be the 15th anniversary of
Quoting Philippe Bruhat (BooK) philippe.bru...@free.fr:
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:55:16AM +0100, Mark Keating wrote:
Tickets:
1. Attendee of the LPW - €0
2. Friend of the LPW - €25
3. Lover of the LPW - €25
4. Sponsor of the LPW - €100
If you are being sent by a company this is a way for
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
On 19/06/13 14:52, Abigail wrote:
That's not a lookahead assertion. This is:
$ perl -wE 'say for 0123456789 =~ /(?=(\d{3}))/g'
012
123
234
345
456
567
678
789
$
So there's a typo on p.248
Patches welcome -
free to pass on this email to them.
Cheers,
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
Quoting Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org:
In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question
but it might be part of the solution.
I'm picking up HTML from another site, and that HTML is pretty crappy.
Is there any way of quarantining it so it doesn't bugger up
Quoting Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com:
or you could get a trainer onsite.
That sounds like a *fabulous* idea :-)
Quoting Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com:
On 14 May 2013 14:10, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Quoting Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com:
or you could get a trainer onsite.
That sounds like a *fabulous* idea :-)
bbcOther perl trainers are available/bbc ;)
Yebbut Who ya
Quoting AJ Dhaliwal adhaliwa...@gmail.com:
Dave...
[Who is seriously considering replacing fkth.is with fkth.at]
Too late. I have purchased fkth.at and will sell it to you for 1
million dollars.
First rule of domains: never mention in public a domain you might be
interested in, without
Quoting Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com:
On 08/05/2013, at 7:37 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
Quoting AJ Dhaliwal adhaliwa...@gmail.com:
Dave...
[Who is seriously considering replacing fkth.is with fkth.at]
Too late. I have purchased fkth.at and will sell it to you for 1
million dollars.
First
(and more details) at http://www.opentech.org.uk/2013/
Hope to see some of you there.
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
to cope
with all of the possibilities (sensible or not).
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
to me, it would make sense for 3 parameters:
Number::Fraction-(int, num, den);
but that would be helpful to work with the so called vulgar
fractions and cold write things like:
my $twothreefourth = Number::Fraction-new( 2, 3, 4);
I think
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
Op 3 mei 2013, om 10:21 heeft Dave Cross het volgende geschreven:
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
to me, it would make sense for 3 parameters:
Number::Fraction-(int, num, den);
but that would be helpful to work
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
However, can someone point me out what is happening between lines
132 and 144 of Fraction.pm ? This part is the neatest part of the
module, where it enables the module to use constants in your Perl
programs.
I don't know if it's any
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
Hello,
As agreed upon with Dave Cross, I would make some really cool
changes to his module Number::Fraction - I as former math teacher
love fraction.
However, can someone point me out what is happening between lines
132 and 144
Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
Should really give users the option to uninstall that handler too, I guess.
Oh. I did.
sub unimport {
overload::remove_constant(q = undef);
}
me++ # for code
me-- # for forgetting code
Dave...
Quoting Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com:
Dave wrote:
Otherwise new() returns false and the original string is used instead.
Technically what Perl interpreted the original string to be is used instead.
i.e. you wrote:
return __PACKAGE__-new($_[0]) || $_[1]
Not
return
wkhtmltopdf (http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/).
Dave...
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@davorg
On 04/02/2013 10:03 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
Hi all,
There are still plenty of tickets available for my Perl School on Moose
at Google Campus this coming Saturday (6th April).
Tickets are £30 for a full day of training.
http://perlschool.co.uk/courses/object-oriented-programming-with-perl
Quoting Mark Stewart m...@originalstewart.com:
I would like to attend but cannot make this Saturday. Do you have a podcast
or the like I can download, even for a fee?
Apparently what I need here is a FAQ :-/
Dave...
Quoting Matt Freake matthew.d.fre...@gmail.com:
You should look into doing a Webinar
In a wine bar, perhaps...
Quoting Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com:
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 10:03 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Hi all,
There are still plenty of tickets available for my Perl School on
Moose at Google Campus this coming Saturday (6th April).
I realise that this course is a repeat in itself
Quoting Roland Schmitz sc...@web.de:
Am Mittwoch, 3. April 2013 schrieb Andrew Beverley:
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 12:27 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Quoting Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com:
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 10:03 +0100, Dave
Hi all,
There are still plenty of tickets available for my Perl School on
Moose at Google Campus this coming Saturday (6th April).
Tickets are £30 for a full day of training.
http://perlschool.co.uk/courses/object-oriented-programming-with-perl-and-moose/
And some advance notice for the
Quoting Roland Schmitz sc...@web.de:
Di Dave, hi *,
Am Dienstag, 2. April 2013 schrieb Dave Cross:
Hi all,
There are still plenty of tickets available for my Perl School on
Moose at Google Campus this coming Saturday (6th April).
When will it start, when do you expect it to end?
It starts
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the classes on-the-fly, and is closer to what Dave Hodg is after.
That would be lovely. I'll take a look at SPORE.
Cheers,
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
Quoting Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net:
We need people with voting facilities (accounts) on Wikipedia to vot up Perl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Perl#Move_to_.22Perl_.28programming_language.29.22
I note that this proposal has been withdrawn. The original proposer
has realised
Quoting Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net:
Looking down our noses and saying WE don't need to disambiguate because WE
know what we mean, (capitals are mine), is all very well, and I for one
understand that there is no NEED for us to disambiguate Perl the programming
language. However, the
Quoting Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net:
I understand what you mean here, but there is room to wriggle.
I don't want room to wriggle here. I don't want the Perl community
resorting to borderline underhand SEO tactics. I want us to follow the
spirit of the Wikipedia rules, not just the
Quoting Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net:
We need people with voting facilities (accounts) on Wikipedia to vot up Perl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Perl#Move_to_.22Perl_.28programming_language.29.22
The proposal here seems to be to rename the Wikipedia article Perl
to Perl
On 03/15/2013 10:40 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
~~ and //= are the only new sigils
I don't think 'sigils' means what you seem to think it means :-)
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On 16/03/13 11:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
On 16 Mar 2013, at 08:31, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
On 03/15/2013 10:40 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
~~ and //= are the only new sigils
I don't think 'sigils' means what you seem to think it means :-)
Line noise?
They are operators
Quoting Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:04 AM, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
So, no then. In the sense of having a single page of good examples of
using the new features.
It would make a good article for publication.
Does anyone publish Perl
to pay an invoice about a month
after receiving it. Some clients ask for 90 days to pay. I avoid those
clients.
Dave...
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Quoting Roland Schmitz sc...@web.de:
Hi Dave,
So one of them might be run close to the LPW. But not on the same day.
i never thought it would/should be on the same day. A day before or
after would be great.
It's unlikely to ever be any closer than a week away. Given that both
the LWP
Quoting Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com:
On 06/02/2013 21:43, Dave Cross wrote:
The first two Perl Schools (August and October) were called Modern
Perl for Non-Perl Programmers[1].
Not aimed at absolute beginners, but trying to get users of other
languages interested in Modern Perl. I had
On 02/06/2013 12:40 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:18:52AM +, Dave Cross wrote:
Perl School 4 is this Saturday (9th Feb). It's an introduction to
DBIx::Class.
Do you intend to ever repeat these classes? I couldn't go to the Moosey
one in December because I
On 02/06/2013 07:34 PM, Lyle wrote:
On 06/02/2013 18:59, Dave Cross wrote:
On 02/06/2013 12:40 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:18:52AM +, Dave Cross wrote:
Perl School 4 is this Saturday (9th Feb). It's an introduction to
DBIx::Class.
Do you intend to ever
== no money for clever stuff like that).
And I'm not sure how useful the slides would be without having seen me
banging on in front of them.
But ping me (offlist) next week and I'll see what I can do.
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
with who would benefit from an introduction to DBIC?
Sign up at http://perlschool.co.uk/upcoming/
Cheers,
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
a hash is a list but I mistakenly assumed it meant a list of scalars.
That wasn't your mistake. A hash *is* (composed from) a list of
scalars. There is no other kind of list in Perl.
You mistake was (apparently) assuming that a subroutine called as part
of
Quoting pierre masci piema...@gmail.com:
Hi all, i was told that videos of the LPW2012 would be available online in
the near future, is this still true? Has it happened already?
I don't mean to rush the people who are/would be doing this. I'm just
wondering if this has/will happen. If it
Quoting Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk:
I would like some informed opinion on the Kindle Fire, a friend is
thinking of buying one as a gift for a partner, I could use the
review sites but I don't know those people, I do know and like (hey
LPW is still bubbling through my veins
Quoting DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com:
Is it dead? It seems to be 2011 right now. Which I don't mind,
it was a pretty good year.
http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/applications.html
Apparently not. There were three newbies in Frankfurt
Quoting Matt Freake matthew.d.fre...@gmail.com:
1/ Technical
What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which
Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other
technical things that need to be covered?
Has the CPAN shell always been there?
Quoting Guinevere Nell guinevere.n...@gmail.com:
On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm
not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's
accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the
heart of most development
Quoting Peter Sergeant p...@clueball.com:
Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago!
http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html
Similar photo from YAPC 2000 in London
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmccarroll/49476450/
DAve...
Quoting Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com:
1/ Technical
What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history?
Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there
any other technical things that need to be covered?
I'd be sure to mention the strong role Perl
Quoting David H. Adler d...@panix.com:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl.
I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the
things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure
Quoting Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com:
On 19/11/2012 17:29, Dave Cross wrote:
What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history?
Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there
any other technical things that need to be covered?
I know Tim
Quoting Matt Freake matthew.d.fre...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which
Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other
technical things that need
Quoting Abigail abig...@abigail.be:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl.
I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the
things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure that I
Quoting Andrew Savige ajsav...@yahoo.com.au:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl
Great idea.
An amusing anecdote from the very early days that illustrates how
Perl attracted some of its early users
Quoting David H. Adler d...@panix.com:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
2/ Community
What community initiatives should I cover? Can I mention TPI without
giving some people nightmares? How much detail can I cover about
Perl Mongers? Which conferences deserve
Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com:
in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but
they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies
but some actually learned perl.
Yes. I'm well aware of the effects of Matt's scripts. In fact I think
I may have
Quoting Simon Dick sim...@irrelevant.org:
On 20 November 2012 15:45, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
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in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they
helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some
actually learned perl.
Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com:
On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com:
in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but
they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but
some actually learned perl
At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl.
I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the
things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure that I didn't
miss anything important.
So I thought I'd turn to the london.pm hivemind. What parts
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