Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-24 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org writes: Am 22.02.2011 16:57, schrieb Gabor Szabo: He, as a sysadmin would like to do the small tasks in a relatively small language. He would like to make sure the modules/applications he will download and will have to support are in such a relatively small

Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Gabor Szabo
hi, At FOSDEM I met Arne Wichmann who is a long time sysadmin, Debian developer and Perl user. We had a short chat in which he expressed his concerns about the complexity, the size (memory footprint) and speed of Perl 6, Without even taking in account the current memory requirements and speed of

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 17:57 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: For a better comparison that takes in account the features as well see http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/an-accurate-comparison-of-perl-5-and-rakudo-star.html Thanks for posting this. Can I infer from this article that it is

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 17:57 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: For a better comparison that takes in account the features as well see http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/an-accurate-comparison-of-perl-5-and-rakudo-star.html Just

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 17:57 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: For a better comparison that takes in account the features as well see http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/an-accurate-comparison-of-perl-5-and-rakudo-star.html

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 11:28 -0500, Will Coleda wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 17:57 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: For a better comparison that takes in account the features as well see

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 17:35 +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote: Am 22.02.2011 17:14, schrieb Guy Hulbert: On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 17:57 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: For a better comparison that takes in account the features as well see

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Moritz Lenz
Am 22.02.2011 16:57, schrieb Gabor Szabo: He, as a sysadmin would like to do the small tasks in a relatively small language. He would like to make sure the modules/applications he will download and will have to support are in such a relatively small language. Whatever Perl 6 will turn out to

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Frank S Fejes III
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: We can't be everybody's darling, as much as we would love to. That's a fair statement, however do consider that perl5 is still a darling for many system administrators and command-line warriors who have long since left awk

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Frank S Fejes III fr...@fejes.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: We can't be everybody's darling, as much as we would love to. That's a fair statement, however ... Let me just link to the recent blog post of

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

2011-02-22 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 02/23/2011 02:10 AM, Frank S Fejes III wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: We can't be everybody's darling, as much as we would love to. That's a fair statement, however do consider that perl5 is still a darling for many system administrators