Nicolas Mendoza

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• Commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things
  @peco: Was perl4 supposed to live on after perl 5 was launched? Because if you imply that perl6 is going to replace perl5, well, that’s quite a bold thought....
• Commented on List::Slice - Slice-like Operations for Lists
  Awesome, I had this request in #perl-help the other day, and hopefully I can now never run into auto-vivification of dereferenced array-ref members again (still don't understand why that happens.) $ perl -wE 'my $a=[1,2,3]; say 0+@{$a}; say map {...
• Commented on How each drove me crazy
  sub test_if { my $entry = shift; return List::Util::first { $entry =~ /$_/ } values %regex; }...
• Commented on Resolving non-perl dependencies for perl modules in Debian/Ubuntu
  $ dh-make-perl --build --cpan WWW::Curl::Easy # should take care of this, no?...

Comment Threads

• Steve Mynott commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  Which languages are you talking about? Both Lisp and Fortran have actively developed multiple versions.

• Zoffix Znet commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  I briefly looked at Fortran’s wiki and didn’t see the variants section right away, which, I think corroborates the OP’s point of view about confusion. But even after reading the Variants section, it doesn’t seem to say that, say Fortran 6 is an entirely new and different language compared to Fortran 5, which is certainly the case with Perl 6/Perl 5.

• sue spence (virtualsue) commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  John

  Regarding “There’s been a number of decent solutions proposed over the years, (mst I think had the best compromise to rename Perl5 ‘Pumpkin Perl’) but none of them gained traction.”

  I thank the atom gods that this never happened. I’ll explain P5 vs P6 any day to a management team, but I would not ever want to explain how squash became involved. Perl developers have enough of a reputation for weirdness as it is, and delving into the hoary old ‘pumpking’ business - forget it. :-)

• sue spence (virtualsue) commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  Zoffix, regarding Fortran et al:

  I’d say Perl is a bit unusual in having, from version 1-5, a sort of Highlander mentality. “There can be only one!” This happened despite the fact that its code is freely available. Various people have forked it over the years up until the present day (hello cperl and rperl) but I can’t think of any fork which has been particularly successful in a wider sense.

  Fortran, Lisp, C, Pascal, etc. have all had multiple versions being used personally, academically & professionally. Turbo C wasn’t the same as the origi…

• chris fedde commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40K6rApRnhQ