Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns
At 01:51 AM 5/6/01 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: The debate rages on: Is Perl Bactrian or Dromedary? It's a Dromedary, it says so in the Colophon. But maybe the symbol of Perl 6 should be a Bactrian, with the extra hump symbolizing the increased power. You knew this was coming... -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com
Re: So, we need a code name...
For your collective amuse() abuse() dismiss() I humbly submit: duran (or derivatives) Aside from conjuring images of reflex, rio, and maybe Barbarella for a select few, the word occurs in some interesting contexts. It means little aside from it being a last name, a city name, and bearing resemblence to some neat stuff. One bummer is the likeness to AMD's Duron. *shrug* Relations are up to you to draw, so read between the lines. Just don't ask why I looked it all up. It is, in fact, a totally unrelated story which has kept me up all night. Connectionist pride. Similar to: 1. Latin dura (Italian, Spanish also): hard, solid, durable. Also Latin durare, last to endure. 2. Dura the circle, where Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image near Babylon (Daniel 3:1). Still exists, and still bears the ancient name, which is something. The city is Dura in Syria, rebuilt many times over a thousand years, as a military colony by the Seleucids, a caravan city around 100 BC by the Parthians, and a frontier fort in AD 165 by the Romans. Home of the only extant Christian community meeting or assembly house from the 3rd century, earliest example of Christian community religious gathering. 3. Radiodurans, a form of pseudomonas bacterium (pseudomonas are able to use virtually any organic molecule as a source of carbon and of energy). Radiodurans are an extreme environment lifeform, thriving at the cores of swimming-pool nuclear reactors (to the annoyance of plant physicists). This one is long and interesting. 4. The prefix deru-, solid, firm, steadfast. Has variants in Old English, Old Norse, and Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Names (Duran): 1. (b. 1350) Jewish philosopher, linguist, and satirist, compelled to Christianity and later resumed Judaic worship. Known for his scholarly writings on Hebrew grammar. 2. (b. 1361) First Spanish Jewish rabbi to be paid a regular salary by the community. Reduced Thirteen Articles of Faith of Moses Maimonides to three essential dogmas. He was a synergist. ;-)
Re: list logs?
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Dan Brian wrote: Logs on archive.develooper.com for p6l and p5p haven't been written to since 4/27. I assume somebody is already looking at it, or updates are scheduled for longer periods than before? I haven't had time to get them updating again since I moved the perl.org mail to the new box. real soon now, real soon now. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do();
list logs?
Logs on archive.develooper.com for p6l and p5p haven't been written to since 4/27. I assume somebody is already looking at it, or updates are scheduled for longer periods than before?
Re: So, we need a code name...
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:31:17AM -0600, Dan Brian wrote: For your collective amuse() abuse() dismiss() I humbly submit: duran (or derivatives) Aside from conjuring images of reflex, rio, and maybe Barbarella for a select few, the word occurs in some interesting contexts. It means little aside from it being a last name, a city name, and bearing resemblence to some neat stuff. One bummer is the likeness to AMD's Duron. *shrug* durian. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
Re: So, we need a code name...
At 08:33 AM 5/6/01 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:31:17AM -0600, Dan Brian wrote: For your collective amuse() abuse() dismiss() I humbly submit: duran (or derivatives) Aside from conjuring images of reflex, rio, and maybe Barbarella for a select few, the word occurs in some interesting contexts. It means little aside from it being a last name, a city name, and bearing resemblence to some neat stuff. One bummer is the likeness to AMD's Duron. *shrug* durian. You want to name it after a fruit smelling of dead cows and sewer gas? -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com
Re: So, we need a code name...
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:51:27AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
durian.
You want to name it after a fruit smelling of dead cows and sewer gas?
durian
n 1: tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a
hard spiny rind [syn: {durion}, {durian tree}, {Durio
zibethinus}]
2: huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell
and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like
nuts
I think that's rather descriptive of Perl in general. Its huge, hard
on the outside, soft on the inside, smells really nasty but if you're
brave enough (or dumb enough) to take a bite it tastes wonderful.
--
Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One
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Re: So, we need a code name...
durian
n 1: tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a
hard spiny rind [syn: {durion}, {durian tree}, {Durio
zibethinus}]
2: huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell
and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like
nuts
I think that's rather descriptive of Perl in general. Its huge, hard
on the outside, soft on the inside, smells really nasty but if you're
brave enough (or dumb enough) to take a bite it tastes wonderful.
I agree. Especially considering the language-independence of the parser
being planned. Besides the meaning, it's a rather cool word all by itself.
Re: So, we need a code name...
At 08:27 PM 5/6/01 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
durian
n 1: tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a
hard spiny rind [syn: {durion}, {durian tree}, {Durio
zibethinus}]
2: huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell
and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like
nuts
I think that's rather descriptive of Perl in general. Its huge, hard
on the outside, soft on the inside, smells really nasty but if you're
brave enough (or dumb enough) to take a bite it tastes wonderful.
Have you seen one? Hard as a rock and covered with spikes. If one fell on
you from more than three feet it would spell instant death, which would
probably be more merciful than being exposed to the smell.
Grocers either stock them outside or frozen.
It's not what I'd call a positive image :-)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
Re: Apo2: \Q ambiguity
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:23:18PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't tell you what I had to go through just to get those two characters into this message, and they're still only in Latin-1. Compose and an average version of X. Hmmm, maybe you can point out the compose key on my keyboard, I can't find it. ;) I know what Larry went through. I had to do quite a bit of work just to be able to type a £ symbol. I wound up remapping my 'option' key (that's 'alt' to you non-Mac people) to £. I still haven't managed to get my xterms to display it right and had to switch from my normal Clean font in emacs because it doesn't support high ascii to Neep. Stupid American Computers aren't quite ready for the Unicode invasion. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Free beer w/riot!
Re: So, we need a code name...
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:51:27AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: At 08:33 AM 5/6/01 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:31:17AM -0600, Dan Brian wrote: For your collective amuse() abuse() dismiss() I humbly submit: duran (or derivatives) Aside from conjuring images of reflex, rio, and maybe Barbarella for a select few, the word occurs in some interesting contexts. It means little aside from it being a last name, a city name, and bearing resemblence to some neat stuff. One bummer is the likeness to AMD's Duron. *shrug* durian. You want to name it after a fruit smelling of dead cows and sewer gas? Oy! *I* didn't suggest the Duran name :-) -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2001 15:22:40 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: I suggest that we simply create another q-op to do the qw-ish things you're proposing. Perhaps qi() for interpolate or something else. qqw Why I'm reminded of car, cdr, cadr, cdar, cddar, cadar, ... -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
