Matthew Persico

• About: I was never in love with C or SQL like this...

Recent Actions

• Posted System Setup for Modern Perl Projects to Matthew Persico

  From 2015, but it came across my screen this morning. Seems like it is still relevant.

  System setup for modern perl projects

• Commented on A private not official branch for Perl 7 by several members of perl porters
  If it's a private, not official branch, but mentioned in the mailing list, don't you think that's where it should have been left? Not everyone here is on the mailing list. Perhaps it is not ready for public consumption....
• Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
  Wait? You think that the point of these challenges is to make people feel they "are not smart enough"?...
• Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
  Lady Aleena, The latest challenge posted is, I believe, number 75. I believe all the challenges remain posted on line. Perhaps a good place to start would be at challenge #1. If I recall correctly (I am not solving the...
• Commented on Polling for fun and engagement
  Can you update with direct links? I didn't see these polls....
• Posted Perl Mongers, Unite! to Matthew Persico

  TL;DR:
  

  Detail:
  pm.org is gr…

• Commented on Coders In Cars Getting Chatty
  Excellent. As usual....
• Commented on New Perl project. Interactive Perl coding tasks to run in the browser
  But THANK YOU! Now I can stop using perl -e at the command line for short snippets that invarialbly become programming sessions!...
• Commented on New Perl project. Interactive Perl coding tasks to run in the browser
  Suggest this change: The solution that you have entered does not work as expected. See the PerlBanjo link above for errors....
• Posted Perl 5 is now on github to Matthew Persico

  Not sure if this has been posted on here on blogs...

  https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256484.html

• Commented on Larry has approved renaming Perl 6 to raku
  Signatures must no longer be experimental "optional" though, should still be allowed, right? A solid OO system must become core "solid"? Define. I don't think so. I think you choose between Moose/Moo and Mouse, ship it in core and...
• Commented on Skipping DateTime::Format::Mail in the Pull Request Club
  Is that stated in the docs somewhere? If not, there's your PR....
• Commented on TIL - Object Method: Named Arguments Unpacking
  I always preferred my $self = shift; my %args = @_; because I usually do my $self = shift; my %args = ( param1 => "0", ## default value param2 => undef, ## documenting @_); so that I can set...
• Commented on Daily CPAN upload chain broke, again !!!
  Kobayahsi Maru: The game is to *prepare* an upload to CPAN each day. If the upload does not make it because of technical issues, that's irrelevant. :-)...
• Commented on Perl Blogs
  There was an attempt to redo this site, but it died. I THINK there was another proposal in the past few months, but I'd have to search for it....
• Commented on Which edges cases could perl shed to make it easier to parse?
  And isn't this what RPerl is trying do do, albeit approaching from the other direction, i.e.; removing stuff from an existing implementation as opposed to RPerl that's adding selected stuff to a new implementation?...
• Commented on Which edges cases could perl shed to make it easier to parse?
  The problem is you'll never remove all that stuff; too much prior art. The best you'll do implement another codepath without all that stuff, turned on with a pragma and now you'll have yet another codepath to maintain....
• Commented on Language::SIMPLE - The Portable Integrated Scripting System
  Wow. You've come a long way since the first version of GUIDeFATE. Sorry I wasn't able to use and beta it for you, but glad to see you've taken off with it!...
• Commented on Introducing: Perl 6 Marketing Assets Web App
  Damn. How do we do this for Perl5????...
• Commented on The Future of Perl 5
  Using all the stuff Damian showed off at TPC-DC 2017 or by actually adding to the core?...
• Commented on New githook-perltidy feature: README from POD
  Wow. I wish I had seen this a year ago when I wrote my own. :-)...
• Commented on A new object system for Perl
  Very interesting. Dot is more of a technique than code. Suggest you change the docs in one way: Use something other than 'class' for the subroutine name in your examples. I spent a few minutes trying to determine how to...
• Commented on Four backends now for GUIDeFATE...but the struggle continues
  Ron, I am confused; I don't see anywhere in this project where a web server is relevant. As I understand it, this project is about GUIs - local, on machine, no-network programs. From the post: "GUIDeFATE is a tool that...
• Commented on Pi Day!
  Just make sure you publish version 3.1415 next March 14th. :-)...
• Commented on Guiding Fate
  At this point I would: 1) CPAN it. As is. That gives you exposure which will bring in Pull Requests so you don't have to do everything. 2) Once CPAN'ed I would add in support for Tk - that's the...
• Commented on White Camels 2017
  White Camel site is missing 2016 winners....
• Commented on Nominate Perl heroes for the 2017 White Camel Awards
  Just went to the WhiteCamel site. How in the world has Damian not won one of these? I think it's about time. As evidence, I present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob6YHpcXmTg&t=2s&index=1&list=PLlD3K-igA84dGmROLTKuPnNvNGgKjyADd From this work, we gain the ability to modify the Perl language in...
• Commented on Perl less buggy than Python?
  Ugh - the link seems to have not made it to the post. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/98/11184.html...
• Posted Perl less buggy than Python? to Matthew Persico

  The numbers would seem to suggest it:

• Commented on Take a walk on the C side, ddt, du du, du du ...
  You are either a music connoisseur or you are dating yourself with that title. Of course, I am also dating myself. Lol. Great article....

Comment Threads

• Erez Schatz commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  Yes, I know. I get this "you are not smart enough" feeling as well. Maybe this is the point of those challenges.

• Andy Smith commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  The video of Lance solving challenge 74 from scratch with tests was ver useful for newbies I thought:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM0TTQZaZ2Q

  https://lancewicks.com/2020/08/22/perl-weekly-challenge-74/

• Martin McGrath commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  The point of perl weekly challenges is quite well defined on their site. None of it is intentionally designed to make people feel bad about not being able to tackle a challenge.

  The barrier for participation is what, able to use some git at a fairly basic level, understand the particular challenge (if you are unfamiliar with the topic in question this needs research on your part), figuring out an approach, applying that in perl, rinse and repeat until you have something that achieves the goal. That doesn't seem unreasonable, since that is what a great deal of programming/problem sol…

• Yuki Kimoto commented on A private not official branch for Perl 7 by several members of perl porters

  I'm worried that something private will suddenly become official.

  If many Perl users know, they should be able to react to branch changes.

• Yuki Kimoto commented on A private not official branch for Perl 7 by several members of perl porters

  The Perl Core Team meeting does not appear to have lasted on August 18th.

  https://github.com/Perl/perl5/wiki/Past-Perl-Steering-Committee-Meeting-Minutes

  If their enthusiasm for Perl 7 is diminishing, I'd like a lower cost upgrade to maintain full backwards compatibility.