willthechill

• Website: rperl.org
• About: I blog about RPerl.

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• Commented on Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index
  [[[ COPIED DIRECTLY FROM FACEBOOK BY DEAN'S REQUEST ]]] After further careful consideration, I am forced to the unfortunate conclusion that this blog post is so incredibly inaccurate, misleading, and unfair as to be hereby officially labeled as FAKE NEWS...
• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 18: RPerl v1.6 Released, Happy Valentine's Day! to RPerl

  Greetings Fellow Perlites,

  For St. Valentine's Day, we have released RPerl v1.6, with support for a number of new features:

  - Two Dimensional Arrays
  - Logical Ops
  - Uncompile Mode
  - Mandelbrot app via MathPerl

  As always, the latest official release may be …

• Commented on #riba2016 ends - now what?
  Ribasushi, On behalf of the entire community, I extend the deepest thanks for your ongoing ethical integrity and generosity in cutting one final January release. If there's anything the web and crowdfunding have taught us, it is that nothing ever...
• Commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas
  How can I communicate with you in a non-public forum? Can you please send me a message? (No I'm not trying to make you change your mind, I just want to talk.) irc.perl.org #perl11 willthechill william DOT braswell AT autoparallel...
• Commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas
  WAIT... Does this mean you are completely leaving the Perl community and will no longer be a Perl developer?!?...
• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 16: RPerl v1.2 Kickstarter Challenge to RPerl

  Greetings Perlites,

  We're continuing our trend of success with...

  THE RPERL CHALLENGE!!!

  After watching the video linked above, you'll want to head over to Kickstarter:

  ="http://tinyurl.com/RPerlKicksta…

• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 15: RPerl v1.2 Kickstarter Now Live
  Ms. Etheridge, Thank you for your interest in RPerl! To answer your question, the TPF grant requests are different than the Kickstarter. Specifically, there are 3 places that may be confusing: 1. Operators The Kickstarter page states it will be...
• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 15: RPerl v1.2 Kickstarter Now Live to RPerl

  Greetings, Perl Lovers!

  I am proud to announce the launch of our next Kickstarter campaign.

  We immediately reached our minimum of $1,701; now our goal is to reach $20K in the next 9 da…

• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 14: RPerl v1.1 Release, Codename Jupiter, Now Supporting N-Body Benchmark to RPerl

  Howdy Perl Lovers,
  

  RPerl v1.1, codename 'Jupiter', has been released to CPAN!
  

  Jupiter supports fully-automated compiling of the long-awaited ="https://github.com/wbraswell/physicsperl/blob/master/script/nbody.perl-3…

• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 13: Happy July 4th! RPerl v1.0 Full Release to RPerl

  Howdy Perlites,

  After over 2.5 years of work, I'm very proud to (finally) announce the full release of RPerl v1.0 on CPAN!

  Installation should now be as simple as:

  $ cpan RPerl
  OR
  $ cpanm RP…

• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 11: RPerl v1.0 Beta Released! to RPerl
  Howdy Perl World,
  
  After many months of effort, I'm proud to release the beta version of RPerl v1.0, now available for public download at Github:
  
  https://github.com/wbraswell/rperl/
  
  As we lead up to full RPerl v1.0 official r…
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  I opened a new BPO bug ticket! sheesh....
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  The .cpp file contains both Perl-data mode and C-data mode, separated by ifdefs. You are correct, those .cpp files are the ones that will be auto-generated by RPerl v1.0 when it is finished....
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  yes I believe putting the technical requests into github is probably a good idea...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  go to rperl.org click on "low-magic perl commandments" that will tell you the requirements...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  Argh I can't post anything useful!...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  Mithaldu, Here are the links themselves for your convenience: https://github.com/wbraswell/rperl/blob/master/lib/RPerl/Algorithm/Sort/Bubble.cpp https://github.com/wbraswell/rperl/blob/master/lib/RPerl/Algorithm/Sort/Bubble.pm...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  Mithaldu, I've fixed it, there are now links to the 2 main algorithm source code files, in the 2nd paragraph of the Overview section: http://rperl.org/performance_benchmarks.html...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  I can't comment on my own post, it says it is holding my comment for approval by the blog owner, which is me!...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  Toby, I use YYYYMMDD in my personal file formats. :-) Mithaldu, what do you think about the RPerl project?...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  How does it look now?...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  Oh okay, I'll go fix it now, thanks!...
• Commented on Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
  Sorry, the Kickstarter campaign ends at 1:00pm Central Time (Texas, USA) on Wednesday December 4th, 2013....
• Posted Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks to RPerl

  Howdy Perl Community,

  We've released initial RPerl performance benchmarks, which are very promising indeed!

  http://rperl.org/performance_benchmarks.html

  Also, our Kickstarter campaign is now live, please consider ba…

Comment Threads

• Wendy commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas

  I look back on many meetings with you, formal, informal, and otherwise. Most of the meetings taught me that you are very smart, and often not very diplomatic. Not being diplomatic does not mean that you weren't right. I am not a good coder, and you are, so it's not up to me to decide how right you were on proposals to change code. I do marketing in a shitty way, and I'm not the greatest diplomat of this world, so it's not up to me to decide how right you were on proposals to change policy or marketing. I do know it has almost always a pleasure working together with you, and I do thank…

• Clayton Scott commented on #riba2016 ends - now what?

  Perhaps you can convince a patron https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819961

• Aristotle commented on Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index

  Username does not check out.

• Dave Cross commented on Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index

  Some confusion over who the bad guys are :-)

  https://youtu.be/h242eDB84zY

• Neil Bowers commented on Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index

  You'll be wanting a Peace Prize next!