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• Commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?
  Also, where to go to get perl5 advice that isn't insulting and rude? Yikes....
• Commented on [FB]izzBuzz in Perl
  More p5 & p6 versions at Rosetta Code - http://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz#Perl...
• Posted famfamfam flags, revisited to coke

  My department gets a lot of use out of the famfamfam flag set, but we actually needed some of the oddballs like Guernsey.

  So I used perl and whipped up a script to generate the CSS sprite image & CSS out…

• Posted Parrot 3.7.0 "Wanda" released to coke

  http://www.parrot.org/news/2011/Parrot-3.7.0

  Expect a new version of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler to follow shortly.

• Posted Fundraising idea for YAPC? to coke

  
  Poker tourney with buyins going to the TPF, and higher end schwag going to the winners?

• Commented on Random Perl wishlists #1: uncapture modifier, require+import, backtick function
  $ perl -E 'print qx(ls *.pl)' foo.pl...
• Posted Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 to coke

  From pmichaud's announcement:

  Submitted by pmichaud on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 05:18

  On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", …

• Posted Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #31 ("Atlanta") to coke

  Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #31 ("Atlanta")

  On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #31 "Atlanta". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see ="http://www.…

• Posted Parrot 2.6.0 "Red-rumped" supported release. to coke

  What we call the beginning is often the end
  The end is where we start from.
  --T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm happy to announce Parrot 2.6.0 "Red-rumped." Parrot (http://parrot…

• Posted Albany.pm - Capdist, NY Perl Mongers meeting to coke

  There will be a Albany, NY Perl Mongers meeting the last week of July 2010 to get things rolling again after a very long hiatus. Sign up on the mailing list, or stop by on irc (irc.perl.org / #albany.pm) to find out more details!

• Commented on App::SVNBinarySearch is going away...
  It's gone....
• Posted App::SVNBinarySearch is going away... to coke

  ... Replaced by the superior App::SVN::Bisect by Infinoid.

  Infinoid's svn-bisect, now at 1.0, provides a 'run' option, just like git bisect. This is the only feature I had that he…

• Commented on Perl is Dead (to bing.com)
  At the top of the search results, you should see this line: Results are included for pearl is alive. Show just the results for perl is alive. If you click on that link, you'll get the results you were looking...
• Commented on Unless what?
  I often bemoan that De Morgan's is one of the few things I actually retained from my degree, but I guess I should be glad I have it. =-)...
• Commented on Config::INI in Perl 6
  In the RSS feed, your nicely formatted grammar shows up as a code blob....

Comment Threads

• Toby Inkster commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?

  I've just started a CGI.pm-based project; not because I think CGI is great, but because I need to use a module that expects to be passed a blessed CGI object. Anybody know of a good way to mock one of them given $env?

• James commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?

  So, presuming CGI.pm gets removed, does that mean Plack/PSGI gets added?

  toby: CGI::PSGI->new($env) returns a CGI::PSGI object that isa CGI
  

• rjbs.manxome.org commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?

  Nope.

• Steven Haryanto commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?

  CGI.pm is an important piece of Perl history and must be preserved.

  An attempt at sarcasm. Epic fail, apparently :)

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?

  Petdance, anybody else who happened to be in #perl for the whole conversation will have seen:

  wasanzy asked for help

  Shells suggested something that's a really bad idea

  apeiron corrected this

  Shells, apeiron and I discussed it until Shells understood why it was a bad idea

  We and various other channel members helped wasanzy find a good solution to their problem

  As such, I'm reasonably confident that people wanting help writing good perl will not have been put off by the conversation.

  We would vigorously oppose anybody suggesting that the…