Chankey Pathak

• Website: www.linuxstall.com/
• About: A Perl developer from India. Linux and Perl enthusiast.

Recent Actions

• Commented on 99 problems
  LOL!...
• Commented on Perl 7
  Nice idea. In this way we can convey the message to the world that Perl is not dead. Either we can go for Perl 7 or can agree on yearly releases (as suggested by Toby)....
• Commented on Finding Duplicate Code in Perl
  Now this is going to be very useful. Thanks Ovid :)...
• Commented on Beginning Perl (Wrox) is now released
  A very nice book. Thanks Ovid :)...
• Commented on Why People Don't Like Mojolicious
  @Mojolicious is for these companies what the shallow end of the pool is for a young swimmer; dip a toe into CPAN and see that it feels good without fear of drowning. Exactly! I think the same....
• Commented on Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is dead. Long live Excel::Writer::XLSX.
  Our company's product is 10 years old and we're still using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. It just works so well that we don't even have to move to Excel::Writer::XLSX. But I'll try to convince my team to use the new one. Many thanks...

Comment Threads

• Wendy commented on Perl 7

  Perl 6 already has Rakudo with a monthly release cycle with year and month in the name. At the moment we can all work with Rakudo Star 2013.01 and work is being done on 2013.02.

  Renaming Perl 5.20 to Perl 7 and skipping Perl 6 is throwing away man-years of work, energy, inspiration. Just talking about it might demotivate everybody in the community of Perl 6 developers.

  Many people are not interested at all in Perl 6, even not knowing that enormous efforts are made to make Perl 6 more and more backwards compatible with Perl 5, and giving Perl 6 more features that people are w…

• CosmicNet commented on Perl 7

  I believe that such action would be a real nail in the coffin. After all the talk of Perl 6 being the language of the future, people see a Perl 7 release, think "Wow lets take a look" and Perl becomes a laughing stock when they all see it's just a patched Perl 5. What's worse this would jeopardise Perl 6, and all that's gone into it. I think a better title would have been "How to wipe Perl out for good with a simple version number change" or more simple "The Perl 7 one liner of death".

  Perl 6 is the future, an I firmly believe it'll fix everything. If people are impatient then the so…

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Perl 7

  As an alternative idea - how about we pick a name rather than getting even further into the numbers game?

  See my blog post on the subject for my suggestion as to what to pick.

  -- mst, out

• Duncan White commented on Beginning Perl (Wrox) is now released

  Ovid, really liked the book (actually still going through it), it's nicely written, but there are loads of typos, especially wrt code indentation (?was there a space/tab confusion that running the whole book thru 'expand' could have fixed?).

  Most seriously, you've made a serious logical error pp300-306 ("grepping for primes"), where your prime caching is broken. I've submitted an errata report via wrox, but noone's got back to me yet (a week or so later!). Have they passed it onto you yet?

  The core of the logical error was:

  my @primes = grep { ( exists $is…

• Ovid commented on Beginning Perl (Wrox) is now released

  Duncan, thanks for the report. It looks like I'm going to have to try and write something up to fix that for the errata. Damn!