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by draegtun 14y ago
To scratch a quick interesting thought that came into my head I just had a look at Cardinal, which is a Ruby implementation running on the Parrot VM - https://github.com/parrot/cardinal So downloaded & built Cardinal (which went seaml
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by draegtun 14y ago
For those with long memories there was a (in)famous Topaz project in the Perl world. This was an attempt to implement perl5 in c++. It was abandoned however it did help kick-start Perl6 & Parrot. refs: - http://topaz.sourceforge.net
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Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile?(fasterj.com)
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Acme::Pythonic - Python whitespace conventions for Perl(metacpan.org)
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JQuery UK Conference - Oxford 2013(events.jquery.org)
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by draegtun 14y ago
Replying to myself because I want to add something interesting (to posterity) that I noticed today on Alioth: Perl (or OS) was upgraded from 5.14.* to 5.16.2. From cursory glance this gave all the Perl benchmarks a little boost. For eg.
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by draegtun 14y ago
I think it might well be worth it. My improved fasta.pl is now on Alioth and (I believe) this one change moved Perl above Ruby & also Python on the Which programs are fastest - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-progr
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by draegtun 14y ago
Already posted 3 times before to HN this year: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016848 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5014218 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5020893 NB. Only the first post has comments.
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by draegtun 14y ago
Looking at my keychain I see I have three logins for alioth... draegtun, draegtun-guest & draegtun_guest... all created on 1st Jan 2010. So it looks like I had issues logging (back) onto Alioth at that time :( Anyway resolved it now b
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by draegtun 14y ago
On the contrary my dear igouy, specialisation can be key and knowing which tool in my toolset is best for different tasks is indeed insightful & helpful ;-) re: contribute - Looking on my hard disk I see that I downloaded the bencher/
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by draegtun 14y ago
Take away those last three benchmarks (spectral-norm, fasta & binary-trees) then things do look quite different. For eg: Here is Which programs are best with those benchmarks removed: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/whic
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by draegtun 14y ago
Already taken! - http://www.pquery.org/ Also see: http://ajaxian.com/archives/pquery-php-and-jquery | https://metacpan.org/release/pQuery
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by draegtun 14y ago
Also see: Which programs are best? - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a... One useful metric change is to add "memory (usage)" weight - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a... Based on
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by draegtun 14y ago
I couldn't see this in there so this is related: Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2741780
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by draegtun 14y ago
Additional info: - Post was also cross-posted to Perl blogs: http://blogs.perl.org/users/jeffrey_kegler/2013/01/making-ds... - HN submission of previous post mentioned: Domain-Specific Languages made simpler - http://news.ycombinato
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Making DSL's even simpler(jeffreykegler.github.com)
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Parrot 5.0.0 "Johnny Five Alive" Released | Parrot VM(parrot.org)
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by draegtun 14y ago
There is nothing to be afraid of here, sort just makes use of localised $a & $b package variable names as references to the sort block: our $a = 100; # using $a package variable # then later do a sort on @list my @sor
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by draegtun 14y ago
I was (re-)reading On Lisp yesterday and came across two further variations by pg: In preface: As well as writing their programs down toward the language, experienced Lisp programmers build the language up toward their programs. Then la
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by draegtun 14y ago
Well said. And s/Ruby/Perl/ and this same statement still holds true.
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by draegtun 14y ago
>> Setting `$=` to something truthy causes all string operations to become case-insensitive. This and other magic globals from perl are mind blowing. > Perlisms. They're incomplete Perlisms that's the real flaw because in perl
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by draegtun 14y ago
First came across this blog post via an interesting tweet from Audrey Tang: In which @shadowcat_mst reflects on affective & interpersonal neurobiology with candor and wisdom https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/291197318198349824
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Passion, Protectiveness, Anger and Anguish(shadow.cat)
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Refactoring When Tests Are Failing(blogs.perl.org)
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by draegtun 14y ago
Nice. It inspired me to spend some free time I had today doing same thing in perl 5 & 6 - https://gist.github.com/4542918
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by draegtun 14y ago
Related HN post from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049457
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by draegtun 14y ago
>Like what, exactly?... Threading / Multicore processing. This is the 800 pound gorilla sitting in all programming language camps. >Moose is cool and all, but it basically just brings Perl up to the same level of functionality t
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by draegtun 14y ago
Same here.. I'd definitely like to buy Stevan a beer to find out whats happened. In meantime I raise my glass (again [1]) for all his great work on Moose and hope that p5-mop does make it into Perl core and/or he manages to make Moe a succe
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by draegtun 14y ago
> If "Perl is a dead end" (his words, not mine), then why not switch to another similar language like Python or Ruby? Because a lot of the points given also apply to Python & Ruby. >I guess I don't understand why this guy wan
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by draegtun 14y ago
I rate Moose ( http://moose.perl.org ) up there with CLOS when it comes to power, extensibility and features. However saying these are the best OOP systems in the world is still very subjective because I do have a fondness for the simplic

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