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• Commented on How to find CPAN modules that need help on Windows?
  I applaud the efforts to generate a generalized list of problematic modules for Windows. When I saw the title, my mind immediately raced to the *very* problematic module DBD::Informix. If for some reason this module does not make it on...
• Commented on Beginning Perl - Sneak Peek
  Great piece of code! My only question is where is the entry point? The outer border is solid and unbroken so where do I begin my trek through the maze? Thanks....
• Commented on Parrot 2.6.0 "Red-rumped" supported release.
  OT: Just a quick note for Geoff Broadwell (Sorry, Jeff, I don’t have your email address). I just read your excellent article FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits In Perl, and wanted to thank you for writing the article, and to alert...
• Commented on Listing All Installed Programs in Windows XP
  I tried running your code on ActiveState Perl 5.8.9 on Windows Vista and got the following error message with "use diagnostics": Can't coerce array into hash at C:\tmp\installed_programs.pl line 12 (#1) (F) You used an array where a hash was...

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• Ovid commented on Beginning Perl - Sneak Peek

  Hi roho,

  The upper left corner is 0,0 and that's the entry point. You could probably pick the lower right corner as the exit point. I should consider making that more clear. The actual code in the book has a better explanation of how this works and I think it explains what's going on.

  Glad you like it!

• chorny commented on How to find CPAN modules that need help on Windows?

  Manually edited list exists here: http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules#Test_Failures , but it is not maintained regularly. Automatic tool, but without distinction by OS was written by Adam and is available here: http://ali.as/top100/index.html , but, AFAIK, also is not updated.