Chip Salzenberg

• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on The JVM *could* host a Perl implementation - and do it well!
  Shirley, you can't be serious. Current JVMs have fixed heap sizes and, if you're using a decent-sized heap, GC pauses of over a minute. ONE MINUTE OF DOING NOTHING. And no I'm not kidding. It's called a "Juliet Pause". Nodes...
• Commented on cygwin perl updated from 5.10 to 5.14
  Reini: "When you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs, you obviously do not understand the situation." But: This also applies in the inverse. Your "security problem" is as real as Russell's tea set orbiting...
• Commented on Announcing namespace::sweep
  +1. Thank you, I plan to use this....
• Commented on A compelling reason for Perl6
  Decade? That's arbitrary and short....
• Commented on And the fastest OO accessor is...
  Thank you for these tests! As it happens I've gotten used to the Moose meta object stuff. Perhaps I'll wean myself of it to gain the Mouse speed, someday. What demerphq said - Class::XSAccessor deserves inclusion. I would like a...
• Commented on Roles without Moose?
  A comparison with Class::XSAccessor would be interesting; I think that's the fastest known accessor method that actually is a method....
• Commented on vim: add a 'use' statement without moving the cursor
  How about us Emacs users?...
• Commented on Perl 101: avoid "elsif"
  I'm disappointed that "avoid" would be the advice. "Take note of," sure. "Beware," OK. But "avoid?" No....

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• illusori.myopenid.com commented on A compelling reason for Perl6

  Not having a web framework is certainly a reason for not using Perl 6, but that doesn't mean that having one is a reason to use Perl 6.

  Unless the framework offered something radically new, that provided advantage over other languages, there's no incentive to move to an unfamiliar language when there's literally a gazillion identikit frameworks out there for whatever language someone is already using.

  If I was the guy who had to choose between using a Perl 5 framework, PHP, Ruby on Rails, or choosing a new framework with no track record in an language that also has no track r…

• nikosv commented on A compelling reason for Perl6

  I think that there is a slow but growing shift from OOP to functional programming, and if Perl 6 can accommodate for it better than other languages, then it can get a good share of the market.
  Then, a mix of dynamic and static typing is required by a modern language that keeps the benefits of each.
  And, another strong and very attractive point is the Parrot VM which allows for dynamic language interoperability as well as, do(or should do someday in the future) PAST tree transformations and meta…

• Steven Lee commented on Announcing namespace::sweep

  Great idea! Now I can sweep...you hold like this

• jrw32982 commented on cygwin perl updated from 5.10 to 5.14

  Reini: have you gotten perlbrew to work on cygwin? With the latest install of cygwin (with perl5.14.2), trying to install perl-5.14.2 with the latest perlbrew, I get a hang after ../dist/threads-shared/t/shared_attr.t. This is on WinXP Pro 2002 SP3. BTW, thanks for your work on perl in cygwin -- I use it constantly.

• nikosv commented on The JVM *could* host a Perl implementation - and do it well!

  The JVM has been designed with statically typed languages in mind,the same goes for the CLR and that is why the DLR (build on top of CLR) came into existence;to cater for dynamic languages, as well as interoperate with the static ones on the same platform.

  Of course dynamic languages could use the CLR, like the first version of IronPython was,but required more effort by the designer because of CLR's design and orientation. As a matter of fact Jim Hugunin creator of IronPython initially started his research on the JVM where he had made Jython
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