Self-referencing definitions - it's a bit like time travel.
This was originally submitted back in December, but I never saw it show up,
and didn't see it in the archives, so I'm going to throw it to the meta
list for hacking before there are a slew of PDDs floating around.
(I'm withholding the
Eric Raymond's book-in-development ``The Art of Unix Programming'' says
this about the future of Perl:
Perl usage has grown respectably, but the language itself has been stagnant
for two years or more.
Bah. Looks like my Perl5-Porters summaries have been completely in vain. :)
The past two
On Friday 09 February 2001 14:06, Simon Cozens wrote:
I'm not sure "stagnant" is the best choice of word to describe that.
It used to be that feeping creaturism was the scourge - folks clamoring for
a little stability in their tools and products. Now it seems what was once
"stability" is now
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes, but you see, we're not generating code. All the rest of the stuff is
irrelevant, and Real Hackers don't need to design--it's all self-evident.
Besides, you only need to design if you're building one of those Cathedral
thingies, and we all know how bad
Eric Raymond's book-in-development ``The Art of Unix Programming'' says
this about the future of Perl:
Perl usage has grown respectably, but the language itself has been stagnant
for two years or more.
Bah. Looks like my Perl5-Porters summaries have been completely in vain. :)
yeah, he's
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
[...]
minimalism) and I tried to, but there was some kind of ugly technical
snafu with Skud's listserv and I couldn't get signed on.
listserv? We use ezmlm around here. :) If you still want to join in
then look at http://dev.perl.org/ -
