Robert

• About: I blog about Perl. I use Perl. I

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• Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
  There is zero wrong with the term "man-hours"....
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  Someone looking for a new language is going to try "Pumpkin Perl"? I doubt it....
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  Pumpkin Perl? Wow, that is a rename all right. That is all I can agree with....
• Commented on $3M says Perl5 needs a new major version number
  I am good with the changing it to "Perl YYYY.M". This gets us around the major version number perception elegantly IMO. That doesn't mean new stuff can't go in or that old stuff is broken. It *can* mean that but...
• Commented on Perl 7
  Nothing would change about the way the Perl maintainers announce versions and nothing needs to. This is purely a "no major version" perception problem that is solved (IMO) by going to a yearly naming scheme of some time like "Perl...
• Commented on Perl 7
  "it has the appearance of allowing breaking changes yearly." I don't buy that line of argumentation at all....
• Commented on Perl 7
  I really LOVE LOVE LOVE the version being the year track. That solves it all....
• Commented on Installing all CPAN modules
  CPAN::Mini...
• Commented on The shit of booking.com
  Waste not fresh tears over old griefs....
• Commented on cygwin perl updated from 5.10 to 5.14
  More importantly, WHO did you talk to about your security concern?...
• Commented on Advanced Modulinos
  Modulinos are cool. I try to use them as much as I can....
• Commented on The new ORLite 2.0 learns some amazing SQLite tricks
  Hmmm...interesting....
• Commented on The new ORLite 2.0 learns some amazing SQLite tricks
  You would still use the "delete" method that ORLite supplies. I would think '$sydney->delete;' would wipe them all out and you could pass a 'where' statement to get the exact ones if there where records you didn't want to delete....
• Commented on On development in perl
  Also, doesn't "Perl Testing - A Developer's Notebook" cover some of that?...
• Commented on On development in perl
  Why not do a short dedicated PDF of "TDD in Perl" and give it away free and use one of the print on demand to ask for $$$ if the user wants a dead tree version?...
• Commented on Komodo 7, first try
  Should file a bug against it....
• Commented on Alternative Dancer Templating Engines
  Thanks for that....
• Commented on Alternative Dancer Templating Engines
  @Aristotle - Is there one you like?...
• Commented on Alternative Dancer Templating Engines
  Template::Tiny is a great default for Dancer. I am looking at that Haml code and blech. I am sure some people like it though....
• Commented on I’m very pleased to announce that Best Practical...
  Way to go! You guys rock....
• Commented on New "dot" feature
  I like the -> I don't like ~ for concatenation. That is all....
• Commented on A New Perl Tut Is Already Growing
  I really liked the book "Elements of Programming with Perl". I wish that one was released to the web and/or updated to the latest Perl features. I have pinged Manning a couple of times on it. I always get back...
• Commented on blogs.perl.org needs your help!
  Are their any stipulations like "It must be Perl" or something like that? Otherwise, if MT is giving you fits you could move to Wordpress or something like that....
• Commented on New Beginning Perl book
  I wish they would update "Elements of Programming with Perl" that Manning put out. I liked that one. Packed a lot in with good examples and everything....
• Commented on New Beginning Perl book
  You made my head hurt! :)...
• Commented on YAML vs INI (Again) and the plan for yet another INI module
  Do none of the thousand config file packages preserve formatting? I thought that Config::IniFiles had a switch that allowed that....
• Commented on Mail user agents
  I was surprised mutt had that many....
• Commented on Perl Programming Certificate
  I know. :)...
• Commented on Perl Programming Certificate
  Read through that whole post of Randal's. I think for my purposes a Perl cert from OST is a "good" thing as it helps *me*....
• Commented on Determining my daughter's age
  She's a cutie! :)...

Comment Threads

• educated_foo commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?

  No, I just think you're being obnoxious and playing to "the crowd," for some version thereof. But you can believe what you want, and even tell me that *I* believe what you want...

• Ether commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?

  > No, I just think you're ... playing to "the crowd"

  I find it troubling that you are unwilling to accept Joe's opinion at face value, regardless of whether you agree with it or not.

• Joe McMahon commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?

  To put it in software terms: I'm trying to say I'm seeing an error, cutting and pasting the message into the bug report - and you're insisting that the code is working just fine for you and I'm just a whiner, or that I'm making it all up.

  Don't you just hate it when someone does that, when you know damn well there's an error and they're just blowing you off because they don't want to have to work on it because they're not having a problem?

  Do you notice the parallels?

  Invalidation is saying "what I feel is right and what you fe…

• preaction commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?

  "Man-hours" could have been perfectly innocent. "I refuse to acknowledge the term man hours, you patriarchical pig," made "man-hours" fully self-aware, and then belittled everyone who might have said "Hey, you know, you could have just said 'hours' here."

  This is different from the PyCon incident in that the joke at PyCon was not joking about sexism. The PyCon jokes may have been juvenile and even sex_ist_, but they were not a joke about sex_ism_.

  The PyCon joke was not on the people who are fighting for equality. This one is, and that is why it is repugnant.

  Finally…

• Joe McMahon commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?

  The problem with, "well, it was just one bad joke" is that it's the death of a thousand cuts. Yeah, that one little thing this person did "wasn't that big a deal". And the one this other person said wasn't really supposed to be insulting. And these people didn't really mean to exclude you.
  

  
  It adds up. It's the emotional equivalent of repetitive stress injury. Overusing your hand today wasn't that big a deal, it's just a little sore. Do it over and over for months, and suddenly you hurt so bad you just can't type anymore.