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• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Marpa v. Perl regexes: a rematch
  Could you increase spacing in first table? It is unreadable in current version. Thanks....
• Commented on Partial parsing and error reporting
  I think that it is because of 'map' signature that Perl parser prefers code block interpretation over hashref interpretation....
• Commented on The useful, the playful, the easy, the hard and the beautiful
  Very nice! BTW. the reference on MarpaX::Simple::Rules to MarpaX::Simple::Lexer doesn't work......
• Commented on Perl vs Shell Scripts
  You can always use parseopt from git for shell... if it were a separate library....
• Commented on Marpa v. Parse::RecDescent: some numbers
  How would benchmark look like if you used pure Perl version of Marpa parser (Marpa::PP)? Or is PP version left behind? It would be nice to see plot of Marpa and Parse::RecDescent performance in loglog scale to check if they...
• Commented on Parse::RecDescent and number of elements read on the fly
  I wonder if using Marpa as parser instead of Parse::RecDescent would make it easier......
• Commented on Living in an Age of Excess
  Replacing Try::Tiny with eval seems stupid to me. It is single small dependency... and are you sure that you covered all the sharp corner cases correctly?...
• Commented on How not to use Moose
  There are various "Moose lite" here: Mouse, Moo, etc. depending on what subset of Moose is really required. BTW. roles are awesome!...

Comment Threads

• Jeffrey Kegler commented on Marpa v. Perl regexes: a rematch

  @jnareb: As a child, I was told that "'Tis a poor workman who blames his tools", but I find that tables which look beautiful in every other renderer do not work on this blog. I've redone them.

• Aristotle commented on Marpa v. Perl regexes: a rematch

  The blame is justified.

• Gregory Williams commented on Marpa v. Perl regexes: a rematch

  Is the C implementation of R2 designed to be useable outside of a perl context? I've got a project for which I'd love to give Marpa a try, but it's not clear to me if this is possible.

• Jeffrey Kegler commented on Marpa v. Perl regexes: a rematch

  @Gregory: Yes. By design and intention, Libmarpa can be run on a system without Perl. However, Libmarpa's test suite requires Perl 5.10. And you don't want to try to use an untested Libmarpa.
  

  If you want to know more, it's best to ask on the Marpa mailing list: marpa-parser@googlegroups.com There, other Marpa experts can…

• 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