Salvador Fandiño

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• Commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts
  Pe(a)rl++ == Rhodochrosite Though, I would be more worried about who is going to make the successor of Perl 5 a reality than about its name!...
• Commented on Perl 5, Perl 6, Perl 7, Perl 2013, whatever
  Ricardo, thank you for your detailed and thoughtful answer....
• Commented on Perl 5, Perl 6, Perl 7, Perl 2013, whatever
  Ricardo, sorry if I didn't make it clear, but that sentence was mostly a joke. Well, just lets blame my limited English skills for that. In any case, now that you are here, and seeing all the people worried about...
• Posted Perl 5, Perl 6, Perl 7, Perl 2013, whatever to Salvador Fandino

  It seems people outside our community sees Perl as an stalled language because we have not released a new mayor version for so many years. We have to do something to show them they are wrong, right?

  Well, no, maybe the problem is ours, unable to see what we don't want to see: They are righ…

• Commented on Subroutine Signatures - my Plan (v.1)
  You are doing language design, this is not something that can start simple and then grow. It just doesn't work that way. You have to plan the the new feature on the whole, consider all the things you want to...
• Commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning
  I have never used Math::GSL, but know enough about SWIG* to know that writing good Perl modules using it is almost impossible. So, IMO, the GSL namespace should be untouched just in case somebody volunteers to make a full wrapper...
• Posted Solving Carl Mäsak's "Counting t4 configurations" problem... in pure Perl 5 to Salvador Fandino

  The problem: Counting t4 configurations

  The solution:

  $ time perl t4.pl 
  total: 4783154184978
  
  real    0m0.185s
  user    0m0.176s
  sys     0m0.00…

• Posted My English stinks, thank you for patching it! to Salvador Fandino

  As a non native English speaker, writing good documentation is a hard task for me and often grammatical and spelling errors slip into my modules pod causing me great embarrassment.

  I could use the spell checker more often*, but writing documentation is already a time consuming task, no fu…

• Commented on A localizable interface to `select`
  FileHandle::Select...
• Commented on What do we, Perl programmers, want?
  An almost complete and fast Perl 6 implementation....
• Commented on The life and death (well, deprecation) of a wrapper module
  The idea about adding an autodie mode to Net::SFTP::Foreign had being in my mind for a long time, probably since soon after I attended Paul Fenwick talk about autodie at some YAPC::Europe (Lisbon 2009?), but my dislike for overbloating the...
• Commented on Perl, Perl 5, Perl 6, and names
  Alberto, sorry, mi post was not really a direct reply to your post but mostly a dump of my thoughts after reading it. Probably centered around this thing about dropping the 5 and calling the next perl "Perl 16". That...
• Commented on Perl, Perl 5, Perl 6, and names
  Maybe you don't like how Perl 6 has ended, but the reasons behind its inception are still valid. Quoting from the Perl wiki: At that time, the primary goals were to remove "historical warts" from the language; "easy things should...
• Commented on Moose and Fatal Type Constraints
  Being less strict validating input in production that in testing is a very bad idea as it would cause your code to take untested paths! If you want to be permissive with the inputs from your providers, be so also...
• Commented on Failing your way to success with A/B Testing
  Then, there is the time variable. The initial response from your users may not be the same as the response you could get after months or years of usage. For how long are you able to run A/B testing (or...
• Commented on Suprisingly hard task of writing logs
  Don't wait forever, just a little bit!...
• Commented on Suprisingly hard task of writing logs
  When the reader finds that some byte in the file is zero it should (busy) wait until it becomes non zero....
• Commented on Suprisingly hard task of writing logs
  then replace the zeros by "\n" when the reserved space is not big enough: my $zeros = "\x00" x length $line; while (1) { my $bytes = syswrite $afh, $zeros; last if $bytes == length $line; if($bytes > 0) {...
• Commented on Suprisingly hard task of writing logs
  oops, in my previous comment code, a s/seek/sysseek/g is required!...
• Commented on Suprisingly hard task of writing logs
  A simple way to solve your problem without locks: open my $afh, '>>', $log_filename; open my $wfh, '>' , $log_filename; then, in order to write a line $line: my $zeros = "\x00" x length $line; 1 while (syswrite $afh, $zeros...
• Commented on Perl's Built-In OO
  This is my wishlist for a core OO system (in no particular order): CLOS like supported by dedicated syntax fast compilation & fast runtime its performance penalty should be "proportional" to the set of features actually used. ...or maybe the...
• Commented on Online compiler/interpreter
  Perl 5.8.0 compiled for Linux 2.4? Please, upgrade!...
• Commented on Using CPAN Ratings as a bug report
  It's funny because I got one of this reviews just yesterday, for a module at version 0.01 and clearly marked as experimental on the docs. I hate it! Anyway, I agree with Steven Haryanto, the problem with CPAN ratings is...
• Commented on Benchmarking perl 5 and perl 6: part I - loading overhead
  $ time ./perl6 -e 'say "hello world"' hello world real 0m2.149s user 0m1.890s sys 0m0.240s $ time jython -c 'print "hello world"' hello world real 0m3.169s user 0m5.040s sys 0m0.180s...
• Commented on Combinatory Substitution
  it is like counting in base two: my $word = 'raataacaataacaataamooonpaapaa'; my $zero = 'aa'; my $one = 'ooo'; my $qzero = quotemeta $zero; my @frag = split /($qzero)/, $word; my @ix = grep $frag[$_] eq $zero, 0..$#frag; sub forward...
• Commented on Perl, a multi paradigm language
  you don't really need to push: sub addBMI { @_, $_[-2]/$_[-1]**2 }...
• Commented on What I would change about Test::SFTP
  Well, actually, Net::SFTP::Foreign is not a wrapper but a full implementation of the SFTP protocol! It just happens to require an external SSH client for the transport layer, but this is how most SFTP clients work (i.e. sftp in OpenSSH,...
• Commented on Poll: What is the primary operating system you use for developing Perl applications?
  Ubuntu and OpenBSD...
• Commented on What could a completely different CPAN client do?
  my wishlist: integrated with the native package manager or at least separation of compilation and installation phases so I can compile in one machine and install in several others (that usually are not connected to the internet or/and don't have...
• Commented on Parrotlog - Unification (again)
  The usual approach to remove cicles is to not make then in the first place unifying not the heads of the chains but their last elements. For instance, in your example, after unifying X=Y and Y=Z you have the chains...

Comment Threads

• rjbs.manxome.org commented on Perl 5, Perl 6, Perl 7, Perl 2013, whatever

  I'm sorry to have misunderstood you. It's unfortunate that there has been a lot of bluster that does come off like, "There are a lot of easy solutions if people would just stop arguing and fix things." In general, what I have seen is that this is not true, and that no one is forthcoming with the solutions that they claim are easy — so I hope you can understand why I was frustrated when I read you as seeming to say that we had easy solutions!

  I think that the chief problem may be the lack of contributors working on those areas that are often complained about: speed issues, flexibi…

• CosmicNet commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts

  Lets just rename it to Peril, then go on rapid release cycle like FireFox. Then we can have a new major release every couple of months, and all the huge benefits that have come with that: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

  Of course, I'm joking.

  I can't help the feeling that if the effort from all these years of Perl 5/Perl 6 attrition, had been directed into Perl 6 as they naturally should have been, it would have been ready some time ago. Instead the dog chooses to keep chewing on it's own leg.

• salowrey commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  @chimerix I am a post grad student working in communications. Can you email me? I have a question for you. My email is annlowreycommunication@gmail.com I am a post grad student working in communications.

• salowrey commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  @chimerix I repeated myself… its late sorry!.

• Joel Berger commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  salowrey, the way this site is set up, there is almost no chance that chimerix will see your comment on this old post. Sorry.