Mike Doherty

• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Perl vs Shell Scripts
  I also use Perl when I need to do anything more than the simplest command-line parsing. Getopt::Long just makes it too easy to give up....
• Commented on Authors vs. Contributors
  You might also think about whether there is a difference between author and maintainer....
• Commented on YAPC::NA Surveys - Please Submit Your Responses
  Do you send responses for talk evaluations to the speakers, or just lump it all into the survey reporting on http://yapc-surveys.org?...
• Commented on Exciting updates to MetaCPAN
  Thanks for adding the ability to edit author profile data through the website itself. Does that deprecate the author json files on PAUSE?...
• Commented on Rethinking smart matching
  chorny - I have the exact same use case :) I think removing the recursion is probably not a good idea. It isn't clear to me that doing so would actually simplify things from the user's perspective or fix any...
• Commented on Perl code refactoring
  Maybe you're thinking of perltidy?...
• Commented on Mojo ppl, what have you done?!
  I wonder if CPanel can do perlbrew......
• Commented on Ouch - Exceptions that don't hurt.
  This is great - I've been looking something to easily make exception objects for a while now, and I haven't particularly liked what I've found. But I do agree that numerical codes are probably not that great. As a design...
• Commented on Non-functional perl code testing - automated code review
  My pluginbundle only collects testing regimes for which there is already a Dist::Zilla testing plugin. It is probably worth writing new plugins for some of what's mentioned here and including them. Patches welcome :D...

Comment Threads

• Jason Tang commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  "My philosophy is to share credit liberally. There's plenty to go around. An author is a contributor and vice versa.

  Maintainership is different. Someone must guide the project for the long term. If the demarcation of that responsibility must exist, make it explicit."

  I guess this summarises what I meant in a much more elegant and concise fashion.

• Gabor Szabo commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  For Padre we have a section called
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS where we list The Padre development team in ABC order and a separate section for translators.
  

  
  Though I am not sure why do we still have them separated.
  

  
  In the about box they put a separate "Created by Gábor Szabó" and I did not argue with them but this is a special case as this is an application that has an about box.

• jnareb.myopenid.com commented on Perl vs Shell Scripts

  You can always use parseopt from git for shell... if it were a separate library.

• Buddy Burden commented on Perl vs Shell Scripts

  @Mike and @jnareb:

  For options parsing, I use a block similar to the following that I just copy-n-paste to pretty much every bash script I write:

  
  readonly me=${0##*/}                                                    # slightly prettier than $0
  partial=0
  while getopts ':iph' opt
  do
      case $opt in
          p)  partial=1                                                   # partial matches are the default for locate
              ;;
          i)  ignore_case='-i'
              ;;
          h)  echo "usage: $me -h | [-ip] dirname" >&2
              echo "    -i : ign…

• Dinesh Sehra commented on Perl vs Shell Scripts

  Awesome write up and comparison. Now I am clear to what extent I need to put my efforts in learning perl, and when I should attemp writing a script in perl.

  Thanks Buddy.

  ~Dinesh