Bryan C Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> perl6-language-datetime - Originally chaired by Russ Allbery. Date &
> time handling. Freeze. Last post was 30 Sep.
[...]
> The ones marked as 'Freeze' have a chance to be reusued later on to
> convert the Apocal
In a typical group of system administrators, the features used in Perl
scripts grows by the union of the Perl knowledge of the people involved,
but the ability to maintain those scripts grows by the intersection.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
y here. (And Perl 5.6.0 has been in Debian
testing for a while, for that matter.)
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
errors
that he found in debugging TeX and his debugging methodology.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
at I've heard, actually;
in fact, in some of them, you could do s/Alan Cox/Sarathy/ and get
basically the same rant, complete with the assurances that they consider
the actual tool of the Great Enemy to be a wonderful person.
I think this is par for the course in large, high-profile open source
software projects, regrettably.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
do feel obligated to mention that the one free software project that
does use a private list for core development, namely CVS (at least at some
points in the past), I found highly annoying. But that was much more due
to the inability to read that list than the inability to post to it.
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Rus
mailing list and how to go about participating if the person
really wants to).
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
bably means a lot of research into what's
new in tactics and tricks since Perl 5 was written.
It may be a pipe dream, but I want it. :)
Now's the time to change everything, if theory has kicked out new widgets
that no one had fully analyzed back when Perl 5 started.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
be trying to kick-start it.
I'll go give that a shot. I was going to summarize discussion at the
point at which we'd arrived at any conclusions, however preliminary, but
there really hasn't been enough traffic to do that.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
st
cases first), and it makes me a *lot* more confident about code that I
check in.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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