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by phaylon 16y ago
Also, depending on the country there might be specific privacy laws that matter.
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by phaylon 16y ago
Why not? It's a matter of taste.
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by phaylon 16y ago
Because it's not an indicator anymore.
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by phaylon 16y ago
As a Perl developer I'd say »More power to them.« Also, since Perl's => is basically a comma operator that turns a bareword on its left into a string, I'd say Ruby's move is a step away from Perl regarding syntax, but a step towards Per
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by phaylon 16y ago
And so is "web front-end developer."
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by phaylon 16y ago
I don't think equaling "database using web applications" with "average programming" is being clear about the matter. Simply because that segment might not be immediately influenced doesn't mean the new technology won't be picked up. And eve
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by phaylon 16y ago
I'm not quite sure I see the point. Programmers don't need to care about multi-core, because things like your web server and database will take care of it for you? Then what about the people developing those software products?
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by phaylon 16y ago
I'm not sure I can see that, since the sentence following that quote is »We hope that everyone working on hudson today will do as they claim to want, and work with us to make hudson stronger.« This reads quite passive-aggressive to me, indi
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by phaylon 16y ago
Invitations are usually welcoming. "We can't stop you" doesn't really strike me as such.
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by phaylon 16y ago
It can be, of course. There is more than one way to do it, because there's more than one situation in which one wants to use it. Most of my larger projects use Path::Class, but none of my scripts in ~phaylon/bin do, since I want to use some
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by phaylon 16y ago
$runpath might be safe now, but it doesn't have to be forever. It could come from a config file one day. I'm not sure why using a lexical variable to store a filehandle you only need lexically is more fancy than storing it in a globally acc
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by phaylon 16y ago
Code like this: open my $fh, ">$file" or die "..."; will append to target if $file contains ">target". Code like this: open my $fh, '>', $file or die "..."; explicitly tells Perl what the mode and what the file
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by phaylon 16y ago
The trouble is that this behavior swaps over. I often see people on IRC googled for an answer, but would have never thought about looking at the nice, shipped, and even installed documentation.
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by phaylon 16y ago
I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your statement. I just wanted to clarify that "the most unreadable solution is the most elegant" is not Perl's philosophy by far :) More the opposite. Most of the times you see Perl hackers celebrate some kind
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by phaylon 16y ago
You're misinformed about Perl's philosophy. "There is more than one way to do it" doesn't mean they're all good, and all well respected by the community. There is always more than one way to do it and I have yet to see a single production-g
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by phaylon 16y ago
Also note that if you need more power than string dispatch and are already using Moose, there are match_on_type[1], MooseX-Types-VariantTable[2] and MooseX-MultiMethods[3] that already go a long way. [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/l
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by phaylon 16y ago
Sounds like you want to find an IRC channel that's close to your areas of interest. Perl has irc.perl.org with lots of channels. I'm sure there's something akin to that for most large programming communities. Searching the channel list on F
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by phaylon 16y ago
Being able to test the browser that is the most "off" when it comes to standards without buying a license of Windows is of course an investment. But the PR would be much better than what happened here.
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by phaylon 16y ago
And Perl 5 will stay the most recently released version of Perl 5 (note the number). Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages of the same family. They forked roads but drive in the same direction.
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by phaylon 16y ago
I'm not sure what the -dbg packages in Debian/Ubuntu are strictly for, but wouldn't this be a case for it? If one could post-run the tests by saying "apttest Foo" or something along those things, integration into utilities to automatically
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by phaylon 16y ago
With CPAN (and local-lib and/or perlbrew) I can have per-user libraries, per-application libraries, and it doesn't interfere at all with the dependencies of the system. If a library that both my application and the system use, and they fix
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by phaylon 16y ago
MooseX-Declare is a bit more than that. If you simply want signatures, take a look at Function::Parameters (for functions) or Method::Signatures::Simple (for methods with an invocant).
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by phaylon 16y ago
I agree. I'm not sure if the "replacement" will be a single technology or merely a standardized interface for hooking up web applications on a host.
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by phaylon 16y ago
Correct. And people in the Perl community didn't stop just because someone else had more market-share in web development. There's many area's of programming and I'm always surprised when people think web development is the only one that mat
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by phaylon 16y ago
but watching and waiting for Perl6 and getting the OO model cleaned up Have a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose and http://moose.perl.org as well as the MooseX::* namespace on CPAN. It's Perl 5 OO with a Meta Obje
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by phaylon 16y ago
Well, Perl 5 Version 12 came out in April 2010.
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by phaylon 16y ago
or decipher data structures in perl that use pointers due to a syntax that is still unintuitive after a decade of use Hint: Perl doesn't have pointers, it has references. It's odd that you haven't gotten used to it after
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by phaylon 16y ago
Not sure which Perl you left, but it's not the one I'm using :)
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by phaylon 16y ago
Yes, let's change all OO CPAN modules to use a new library, just for the heck of it. Let's not care that all of these libraries work great and are used in production. Transition takes time, welcome to software development.
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by phaylon 16y ago
This is not true at all. Clean code, documentation, testing, are very highly regarded in the Perl community.

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