Philip Durbin

• Website: greptilian.com

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• Commented on Perl dropped and Go adopted due to concurrency issues in baconbird
  This old post of mine was just referenced in a new post by Mario Roy called "STFL Terminal UI - Concurrency Demonstrations" at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1200923 . Enjoy!...
• Posted Perl actually doesn't suck to Philip Durbin

  I listened to http://devhell.info/post/2013-04-24/feline-tooth-extraction/ today and enjoyed hearing Chris Hartjes describe his recent experience with Perl. Quotes include:

  "Perl actually doesn't suck"

  "all …

• Commented on Andy Lester, brian d foy, Gisle Aas, and Adrian Howard featured in RSA Animate video - The Power of Networks
  Ah, the guy with the beard and the glasses must be Stevan Little, based on what I'm seeing at http://cpan-explorer.org/category/authors/ via http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=685...
• Commented on Andy Lester, brian d foy, Gisle Aas, and Adrian Howard featured in RSA Animate video - The Power of Networks
  You're welcome, Andy. Thanks for all your contributions to Perl! It was fun to watch this video and recognize names such as Aristotle, Darwin, Diderot, and... Andy Lester?!? I wasn't sure if you guys knew you were going to be...
• Posted Andy Lester, brian d foy, Gisle Aas, and Adrian Howard featured in RSA Animate video - The Power of Networks to Philip Durbin

  This image is from http://www.thersa.org/events/video/animate/rsa-animate-the-power-of-networks

  

• Commented on Ward Cunningham on Perl: fast to develop, fast to run, insightful
  Everyone would do well to listen to Randal's interview with Ward: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/27 I didn't realize the first wiki was written in Perl. Cool. My favorite wiki, ikiwiki, is written in Perl too: http://ikiwiki.info...
• Commented on Announce: WWW::Scraper::Wikipedia::ISO3166
  Great work! One bit of feedback. . . The title of http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=8349 is "ISO 3166-2:1998 - Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 2: Country subdivision code" What's a subcountry? Should it be called...
• Posted Ward Cunningham on Perl: fast to develop, fast to run, insightful to Philip Durbin

  From an Interview With Ward Cunningham in Dr Dobb's Journal published May 15, 2012:

  That's when I picked up Perl. And it shocked me, just how well it worked for finding and plundering files because it had…

• Posted rjbs advises to avoid given/when to Philip Durbin

  Having been liberated from Perl 5.8.8 only recently (and not completely, really), I've never used given/when. rjbs explains some gotchas.

  From http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-03-16…

• Posted Perl dropped and Go adopted due to concurrency issues in baconbird to Philip Durbin

  A little part of my Perl soul died the other day when I read a tweet by Mark Jason Dominus:

  Perl didn't work for this guy, here's why. It was a really good article, should be required reading for #perl folk…

• Posted John Siracusa discusses Perl on Hypercritical to Philip Durbin

  In episode #15 of Hypercritical, John Siracusa presented Perl in (largely) a very positive light to what I assume is mostly a non-Perl audience.

  I'm including my notes on the discussion below, but I recommend listening to the podcast yourself t…

Comment Threads

• Ron Savage commented on Announce: WWW::Scraper::Wikipedia::ISO3166

  philip@here&now:

  Good question. We use subcountry to avoid having to write state/province/region/department/parish/and/twenty/other/words.

  See the 3rd column in this page for gory details.

  And using a single word instead of 2 (more words) quickly becomes the norm.

  Cheers
  Ron
  

• Adrian Howard commented on Andy Lester, brian d foy, Gisle Aas, and Adrian Howard featured in RSA Animate video - The Power of Networks

  Heh. Nice. Thanks for pointing it out.

  Feels slightly odd to have not-my-words coming out of my caricature though (as if I'd say that about perl :-)