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• Commented on Your benchmarks suck!
  Maybe it does not fundamentally solve the problem of irrelevant benchmarks - but it certainly raises the awareness about the complexities hiding there....
• Commented on Your benchmarks suck!
  Cool! This was the most constructive frustration venting I've ever seen....
• Commented on Writing Large Systems in Perl is a Privilege Not A Right
  Let’s go past the ‘you can write spaghetti in any language’ and ‘Perl is line noise’ and try to be more specific. What do you think makes a language more suitable for big systems? Can we add this to Perl?...
• Commented on No More Excuses
  Beside forking there is also the possibility that the original author would be happy to pass the maintenance of the module to the patch author. I, for one, am willing to pass the maintenance for all modules that I don't...
• Commented on No More Excuses
  Many people believe that publishing to CPAN should not oblige them to do anything, horses mouth etc. While I don't really agree with that view - I think it is impossible to get to any consensus as to where is...
• Commented on CPAN Search Dependents
  Hi Pedro - with due respect - but I think you missed the point - he is not talking about the modules that a given module depends on, he is talking about the modules that depend on the given module....
• Commented on Why so puzzled?
  @brian d foy - you know how drug dealers supposedly give out the first few doses to hook you on the drug? Yes - the cheapest solutions are not professional and will not scale and will not work for anything...
• Commented on Are the new Perl features worth anything?
  This would be a question to Adam I guess - but how about using local::lib and not depend on the system perl at all? Now that we have local::lib - and the wonderful perlbrew - do we still need to...
• Commented on Perl6 modules in Rakudo baby-steps, part 1
  Hmm - sorry. I now see that my question comes out as a rude 'do it for me' demand. Please don't look at it like that - it was just the first thing I was thinking about when reading your...
• Commented on Perl6 modules in Rakudo baby-steps, part 1
  I know this might be a bit far fetching - but for translating my WebNano web framework to Perl6 I would need a way to do the following: Check if a module is loaded If yes - call a class...
• Commented on Using Skels
  chromatic recently wrote on this subject as well: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/05/a-collection-of-silly-little-snippets.html . Certainly it would be very useful if we could download such skeletons/templates/snippets for common tasks from a central repository....
• Commented on Promoting Perl is fun
  Maybe what we need here is dig a bit deeper, let's take: "I don't want the Perl community to end up where a handful of consultants and trainers are trying to get those of us with less financial ties to...
• Commented on What would you like TPF to do?
  Another thing that just surfaced - I think TPF should talk to companies that break Perl APIs. This needs to be done diplomatically - but they should know that the Perl community has some weight....
• Commented on What would you like TPF to do?
  What TPF could do? First of all the main principle is that it should be complementary to what the volunteer community can do, it should not compete with volunteer hackers. So for example as far as grants for hacking go...
• Commented on Script vs. Simple Application
  Programming is hard let's go scripting... :)...
• Commented on The Second Age of Perl
  "in the face of expotential growth of all Open Source software Perl is once again in the avant garde treading the new ways of maintaining a massive ecosystem of interdependend code libraries" :) From (my PerlMonks post): 'It is the...
• Commented on "Professional-looking project websites" Whatever...
  I think there is an important idea in what sahqueeks.myopenid.com wrote above - some perl websites have quite a good visibility and can be a great visit cards for designers. I guess this is very similar to how CPAN libraries...

Comment Threads

• Steffen Mueller commented on Your benchmarks suck!

  Hi brian,

  Check out the "boxPlot" branch from the github repository, install the dependencies, and run:

  perl -Ilib script/dumbbench -p 0.001 --code='local $i; $i++ for 1..1e6' --code='local $i; $i++ for 1..1.2e6' --code='local $i; $i++ for 1..1.3e6' --plot_timings

  Then you get something like this.

  Unfortunately, this is giant overkill. Installing the SOOT module will auto-install a giant C++ library for data analysis. Sorry.

• Ashley Pond V commented on The Second Age of Perl

  "...we just didn't realize it."
  What's this "we?" I've been saying this for 3 years. :)

  Also, KUDOS! Lacuna Expanse and related code looks amazing. You probably just put yourself among the Perl renaissance makers.

• JT Smith commented on The Second Age of Perl

  @Ashley: Hehe. Ok, well not all of us were blind to it, just most of us.

  Thanks for the compliment, but I hardly think anything I've done in the Perl community puts me up with the likes of Dave Cross, MST, or Miyagawa, etc. But if Lacuna takes off, at the very least it will create more Perl jobs, and that's good for the community!

• Olaf Alders commented on CPAN Search Dependents

  This is great work -- thanks for sharing it. We've incorporated it into our cpan-mangler project. :)

  http://github.com/oalders/cpan-mangler

• whirlyperly commented on Your benchmarks suck!

  Dumbbench doesn't seem to be very well maintained anymore.