Duncan

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• Commented on My Perl Pitch to Students
  Thanks...
• Commented on My Perl Pitch to Students
  I've been trying to make informal contacts with some of the local universities as well. Similarly, I've been involved in conversations about whether mentioning games programming might get the attention of students. The SDL library was being pushed quite hard...
• Commented on Fat Versus Thin Core
  I think the premise of downloading a thin core and then an extended core is quite solid. I've come across two examples recently where other programs do this. I was working on a fresh Ubuntu installation and I couldn't get...
• Commented on What's wrong with CPAN?
  There are quite a lot of modules on CPAN which are over ten years old and which haven't seen an update in that time. That doesn't mean that they need an update, but it does show that the timelines are...
• Commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules
  You haven't mentioned only.pm. It's recommended in PBP and there's an article (http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/03/18/only.html) describing it in glowing terms. It was obviously expected to be the next big thing at one point. I've often wondered why it never caught on. The...
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  Perl at FOSDEM

  I was at FOSDEM to…

• Commented on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
  This issue has been raised before and after it came up at the last LPW I decided to have a look at the availability of library books. A similar problem applies. Many local libraries have Perl books which are ten...

Comment Threads

• Ron Savage commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules

  Hi

  As for showing the space, I was thinking that given a spreadsheet, I (or other) could write code to generate a Graphviz image with edges linking module names to concepts or ideas. This would a different way of visualizing the connectedness or set of functionality offered by a module, one which might be clearer for some readers.
  

• Neil Bowers commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules

  Five more modules added, thanks for all the pointers.

• Tatsuhiko Miyagawa commented on Fat Versus Thin Core

  Python has WSGI and Django and Ruby has Rack and Rails, and none of them are shipped with the language core.

  
  

• Pedro Melo commented on Fat Versus Thin Core

  I would prefer a thin Perl core, but not until we can install modules without super-user permissions on any system and having them recognised immediately by perl.

  The path to this nirvana-like place is not that hard:

  1. settle on ~/.perl5/local [1] as your own personal "local::lib" source;
  2. make sure perl always sources /etc/perl5_policy.pl first: this should take precedence even over sitecustomize.pl which is a per-library file;
  3. distribute a default perl5_policy.pl file that, if running as a non-priviledged user, and if ~/.perl/local exists, prepends the …

• dly commented on My Perl Pitch to Students

  Frozen Bubble is written in Perl and SDL. It's even open source, and quite popular. I think it has packages available in most popular linux distributions.

  http://www.frozen-bubble.org/