Erez Schatz
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- About: Because sometimes you need to bash your head against the wall until either you, or the wall, give up.
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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....
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Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
Yes, also, it will prove the value of Perl to the average programmer, or beginner programmer. It can also show the power of Perl to an outsider....
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Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
Yes, those challenges, while they might be fun for whomever is participating, are really not usable for anyone other than those who have a background in CS and math. It's basically a feel-good exercise for anyone who either has this...
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Posted It was bound to happen. to The Sumō of Programming
While I don't actually work in Perl these days, and not by choice, I still keep an eye on the community. The language is chugging along nicely. Perl 6 is out, so at least that joke has died down, features are being added, some beneficiary, some not. All is well in perland.
Then the news dr…
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Commented on The Future of Perl 5
I gave it much thought before, mostly when I wondered why did so much effort was given to something like "postfix dereferencing" that is nothing more than syntactic sugar (or, to my taste, syntactic salt) rather than a proper object...
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Commented on Announcing Veure at The Perl Conference
The conference formerly known as YAPC?...
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Commented on Missing Smart Match
"any damn fool can see that it’s 2 lines of code instead of 2 characters." That's, for me, the worst possible reason to make a syntax change. Typing is cheap, and while I prefer a good, perlish expression over a...
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Commented on List::Slice - Slice-like Operations for Lists
I can't read this. The gifs are way too distracting....
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Commented on Status update on the p5 MOP project
Development in the open (both in the public and the source sense) is a blessing and a curse. I believe in what you guys are doing and can't wait for this project to push the Perl world forward the way...
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Commented on Please Excuse This Limited Commercial Interruption
Hi, I went over to your other blog, but it told me "do not read this blog" so I didn't....
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Commented on Helping those who allow themselves to be helped
It’s the “I had to suffer to get to where I am now and you should be put to the same task as everyone else, you noobs get off my forum”. Also http://xkcd.com/386/...
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Commented on Helping those who allow themselves to be helped
Before reading the post: Why exactly does the “usual drone of noobs” has anything to do with you? Let them drone. Move along. So someone was ignorant AND demanding. Did he offend you? Is your existence, or well being depend...
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Commented on What if we could drop archives into @INC?
It's mostly a matter of an ecosystem. If you want Java-like installation, you'll need a Java-like runtime, with its 2,000 classes and whatnot, and almost everything else being reimplemented by the program creators. Same with something like Python, where they...
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Commented on Should Perl have a `chomped` function?
“it is not intuitive, especially to the new user” Principle of Least Astonishment: Any language that doesn’t occasionally surprise the novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert. As it is, the chomp(my $input = <>) is probably...
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Commented on Perl Podcasts
There was a nice episode of Coding by Numbers with Damian Conway, Paul Fenwick, and Jacinta Richardson here: http://files.codingbynumbers.com/mp3/cbn-ep31.mp3 Randal Schwartz' FLOSS Weekly have had a few Perl episodes, including: Perl Critic: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/189 Strawberry Perl: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/170 Rakudo Perl 6: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/140...
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Commented on Writing API clients in Perl and Python
I think it's a matter of timespan, as the CPAN exists for a big enough chunk of time for practices to take hold and for tools to evolve. Once this atmosphere of quality (or kwalitee) became the basic standard of...
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Commented on Is there in truth no Perl?
I'm very much a lover of JavaScript, and of prototypes as an OO system, but I don't think it share much philosophy with Perl, being more of a Java meets Lisp/Scheme kind of hybrid. I'm not sure what you're referring...
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Commented on Is there in truth no Perl?
Looking at the Philosophy section of the Ruby Wikipedia page, it does mention stuff like "systems design needs to emphasize human, rather than compute" and Principle of Least Astonishment, both very Larry-ish ideas. The Perl-to-Ruby page also mentions some other...
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Posted Is there in truth no Perl? to The Sumō of Programming
While working on my Tel Aviv.pm talk about DBIx::Class talk (more to follow on that), I met an acquaintance of mine from a deceased start-up I worked on a few years back. We chatted a bit, he said he's still writing in C/C++ (mainly GUI stuff), and when I…
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Commented on Scalar-only Perl
First person that adds syntax validation to a blogging/commenting system will run away with the money....
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Commented on Padre is starting to smell a little bit like 1.0
I have to say, wow, this really looks like something on par with other IDE's I worked with. I'll sure give Padre a spin and see how it really muster in relation to my current workflow, but kudos on the...
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Commented on Bangalore.pm meetup 6th August 2011
I wish you luck in forming your community, and also luck to the Royal Challengers, hopefully winning the IPL next year!...
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Commented on Rewriting the language
I recently got to a bit of a kerfuffle with Bradley Kuhn over his "Harmony Considered Harmful" blog post. Obviously missed the obvious pun in Harm(ony|ful)....
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Posted Rewriting the language to The Sumō of Programming
Not Perl, mind you, I'm not in that area (yet?). But some key terms I keep hear buzzing around, and, in the tradition of starting the Christmas season in late July, I'll begin my Festivus preparation with some minor Airing of Grievances.
- X Driven Development
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Commented on And so it begins
There is a hole in your mind....
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Posted It was bound to happen - Perl numbrenclature to The Sumō of Programming
Here's what happened.
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Commented on Google+: A Review
I think they are mainly being careful. They forced Google Buzz integration on everyone who had a Google account and that caused a lot of problems for their users. It just might be that they are trying to prevent those...
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Commented on the "everything is a file" metaphor
I think of acme (and sam) as the finest editors I had worked with, so I'm very interested in knowing more of what you've borrowed from acme to Kephra....
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Commented on Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Also, remove the insanity of having to predeclare every feature you wish to use. Strict, warnings, 5.10, 5.12 etc etc....
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Commented on Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
The arrow notation, dereferencing, Moose in core....
Comment Threads
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Dave Cross commented on
Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
I hope this might help solve at least some of your problems.
Learn Enough Git and Github to take part in the Perl Weekly Challenge
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David Hodgkinson commented on
Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
Don't sweat it. I've ignored the challenges.
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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:
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Matthew Persico 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"?
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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…
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