Abigail

• About: I am Abigail.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Perl 7
  I think people still haven't stopped ridiculing SUN for releasing Solaris 7 as the successor to Solaris 2.6. In the end, it doesn't matter at all how you label a Perl release. The IT world consists mainly of people having...
• Commented on A distributed design challenge
  Can't you just say campaign $C is handled by server hash($C)%36, for some appropriate hash function? Or you could throw in the amount of money left on the budget, and if $N units are left, you allow min($N, 36) servers...
• Commented on Let's say no to NO
  I also have a job, and neither you, nor the conference organizers are paying for my flights, hotels or giving any compensation for the fact I'm not working those days. I don't think you're entitled to dictate how I should...
• Commented on Let's say no to NO
  Guess I'll never be at a YAPC::Russia then. If you're paying for my flights, hotels and time, then you have the right to demand something. But if you expect me to pay for my flights, my hotels, and take time...
• Commented on Why is this "use" a syntax error?
  Do note that a version number is not a float. 0.96.1 is valid as well, but isn't parsed as a floating point number. So, your argument that .96 is parsed the same way as 0.96 in numerical context doesn't hold....
• Commented on Unicode and Passwords
  One thing to consider is, what are your costs? Has anyone done research to find out whether allowing Unicode passwords results in an increase of customer service calls, because people are having problems? You may think passwords become more secure...
• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  Would love to attend, but I've already made other appointments for said date. Next time, please pick a date sooner!...
• Posted A new JAPH to Abigail

  http://perl-blog.abigail.be/post/9347752138/a-new-japh

• Commented on Allowing anonymous comments
  Signing in here seems to be easy - all I need to do is click a link, no username or password required. Could be that in the past I set up some magic to deal with it, but that I...
• Commented on How to remove a carriage return (\r\n)
  $g =~ s/\R//; Takes care of all Unicode line endings....
• Commented on Something for Perl event organisers to take into consideration
  I'm not sure what to think of codes of conduct. What's the difference between a conference that has a code of conduct, and one that doesn't have one? What is the difference that's being made? How is it enforced? If...
• Commented on Why is booking.com hiring so many developers?
  Perl is neither a sufficient, nor a necessary requirement. We've hired people with no or limited Perl skills, and we have not hired some people with great Perl skills. At Booking.com, we need people that can, and will take responsibility,...
• Posted Somewhere between "use re 'eval'" and "no re 'eval'" to Abigail

  Say, you have a function, which takes a string, a pattern, and then

  sub example {
      my ($str, $pattern) = @_;
      $str =~ /$pattern(?{ 1; })/;
  }
  

  The cod…

• Commented on What non-Perl books do you recommend to Perlers?
  I rather throw out all my Perl books than my copy of "Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment" by the late W. Richard Stevens. And then there's the oeuvre of Donald E. Knuth....
• Commented on The Perl Survey 2010 is ready for you to complete!
  Some comments: Too bad the editors section doesn't have an "Other" option - now I cannot list my editor. I've also no idea what "open source dynamic languages" are. Is C "open source"? What's the source of a language anyway?...
• Commented on Starting Euler
  Mike: I think the point of Project Euler is that it's a math challenge, not a trivial program challenge. Each time I solved a problem using brute force, it felt like cheating....
• Commented on Starting Euler
  http://github.com/Abigail/ProjectEuler...
• Commented on MySQL and Oracle
  Here's a blog post (in German) of a former MySQL consultant (who now employed by $WORK), pointing out that Monty has its own agenda: http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/2708-Monty-vs.-mysql-gpl.html He also points out (outside of the blog) that SUN has poured a lot of...
• Commented on MySQL and Oracle
  I would say this is a good test case for open source software. Can software that is "open" survive being sold to a third party (the party in this case being SUN - let's be clear here, Oracle didn't buy...
• Commented on dev.perl.org - gets a facepaint
  I've created an account on the site the link is pointing to, left a message on the forum, and now the page is up-to-date again....
• Commented on dev.perl.org - gets a facepaint
  Just too bad that the link "actively maintained" points to a page suggesting development suddenly stopped in August 2009....

Comment Threads

• Chankey Pathak 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).

• arrestee commented on Perl 7

  There's a problem here that I don't see being discussed. "Perl7" or "Perl2013" or "Perl Foo" is a fork, plain and simple. The 5.xx line will not end just because somebody decides to evolve Perl5 into something not quite compatible with what it was. There will still have to bug fixes, which means maintainers, which means itches to scratch and ideas to try. In short order, we will have Perl v5.2x, and Perl6, AND Perl 20xx.

  Stevan Little already explained that one of the reasons he decided to build from scratch with Moe is that there's a serious shortage or surgeons qualified to o…

• 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