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• Commented on Making a Super Cal if Rage Will Stick Ex Paella Down Us
  Hey Saif, Great to know you're in the calendar coders club. I love the non-orthogonal challenges of programming around dates and calendaring. There's only one word for it!...
• Commented on My 2023 in Perl
  Really grateful for your work on Crypt::Passphrase!...
• Commented on My new modules in 2021
  @Leon, Thank you for Crypt::Passphrase! I tried it as soon as I read about it. It's now in use in several production apps I work on, providing a higher comfort level for the future as the encryption carousel keeps spinning......
• Commented on A Perl 6 API for <holidayapi.com>
  Hats off to the P6 devs for enabling this high degree of optimization!...
• Commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update
  What I've noticed: Other than people caught up in the name debate, and people trying to be respectful of those caught up in the debate, lots of writing about the language resorts to the practical abbreviation "P6". This is in...
• Commented on fatal warnings are a ticking time bomb (via chromatic)
  I just noticed that the stub My:Module.pm created by Module::Starter has use warnings FATAL => 'all';...
• Commented on Looking at DBI Part 17, Wasn't that a Police Album
  Thanks for this series. Looks like a typo here: We can then check the statement handle with the 'pg_ready' method which returns 'true' if the query is finished, some thing like this while (!$dbh->pg_ready) { ... Shouldn't that have been...

Comment Threads

• whirlyperly commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  Perl 6 started the design process in 2000, which is before many of these people were even born. So instead of trying to win the race claiming to be the hare, be proud of being the tortoise ;-)

• elohmrow commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  I read '6lang' as 'six-lang', which decomposes nicely to 'slang' in my ears. Of course, 'Slang' proper is already taken as the name of a programming language (as is 'S-Lang').

  In the end, I mostly agree with https://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2017/10/6lang-naming-proposal-is-good.html.

• Renormalist commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  Show Perl 6 code to a non-Perl programmer and let him/her decide. He/She will definitely answer "it's Perl".

• JJ Merelo commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  Could be x-lang (eks-lang). Not so bad, not taken as far as I know.

• Saif commented on Making a Super Cal if Rage Will Stick Ex Paella Down Us

  It really has been fascinating learning for me. To think that astronomers detected a difference in consecutive years of less that 0.1% centuries ago, and compensate for it is amazing. The maths is the clever bit. I am planning to cut out dependencies like DateTime that do all the work of calculating dates, just so that I can explore how this is actually done.