Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its core members
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:37:27PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: - The core team appeared to be doing too much, meddling in affairs which didn't concern them. http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN4823 Q: Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? A: The really, really short answer is that you shouldn't. [ annecdote about everyone arguing about the bikeshed, but no one arguing about the nuclear power plant next door. The bikeshed is easily understood, meaningless, and the source of endless arguing. The power plant is huge, complicated and confusing, so no one comments about it. ] :-) Z.
Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its core members
"Adam" == Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN4823 The entry below that is even more apropos. -- Stephen "And what do we burn apart from witches?"... "More witches!"
perl should optimize for extreme cases (was Re: [FWP] Wanted - Have = Need)
[Warning - mailing list violently altered!] John Carter wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, John Porter wrote: As a concrete example, perl's data structures are always managed in memory; while things like sort and merge have been written to utilize on-disk buffers when necessary. (Hmm... smells like an RFC...) I would assume that perl uses glibc's qsort routine. That would be great for perl6; but current perls implement a custom sort routine. The bigger issue, which I think is RFC-worthy, is that perl ought, if possible, to optimize for extreme cases by doing, e.g., disk caching, the way unix sort does. This could be controlled by pragmata, if it was deemed not useful as a default. -- John Porter By pressing down a special key It plays a little melody
Re: Happy Birthday, perl5!
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:47:54PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: According to my birthday file, perl5 is 6 years old as of 16:48:04 on Tuesday 17 October 2000. So, happy birthday to perl5! Hopefully, we can release perl6 by the time perl5 is 7 years old. :) Didn't the timeline say something about 18 month 'til the first release? If so, Perl 5 will be well in elementary school when Perl 6 sees the world ... Jörg
Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its core members
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:30:37PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: "Adam" == Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN4823 The entry below that is even more apropos. Come come, Stephen. Don't start a flamewar. We all know that Perl's threading model lacks fairings . . . . Peace, * Kurt Starsinic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Software Architect * | `The sight of immediate reality has become an orchid| |in the land of technology.' -- Walter Benjamin |
mp3 of Larry's talk available
http://www.technetcast.com Nat
Re: Transcription of Larry's talk
Whoops, I misread the mp3 player. Not 1:26, that's the total length. 1:02 is where I was when I stopped. Ugh, transcription is hard says typist Barbie. Nat
