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Comment on Baltimore Perl Mongers Relaunch by David Raynes

David Raynes — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:06:02 +0000

I’d go if I could get out tomorrow night!

Comment on The Unofficial Doctrine of “Helping Hand” Evolution by mark

mark — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:04:58 +0000

Brad is laying down the law.

Though the oddly sporadic Capitalizations threw me Off.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by mark

mark — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:20:16 +0000

Sorry, I seem to be full of all kinds of hate today.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by mark

mark — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:18:41 +0000

The people who complain about languages are usually the ones who have no clue what they are doing. C is better, Perl is better, Python is the best. Quit your whining or go do something else.

The absolute worst argument (not Perl specific) is the “my language performs better than yours”. You can write some halfway decent Perl code that would outperform code written in c by some yutz who just got his BS in “Information Technology” *shudder*.

Code is only as good as the developer who created it.

If the code sucks; it’s not the language jackass, it’s YOU.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by David Moreno

David Moreno — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:38:47 +0000

Yeah, thanks for trying to push Perl forward on Twitter, I tweet a lot on Perl and usually follow the perl search too. My suggestion is, don’t take it too serious and only respond to people that look to be worth of hearing you, otherwise, yeah just don’t sweat it.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by kd

kd — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:34:44 +0000

I actually ran through the perl twitter stream yesterday using the technique described in this paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-009-9150-9

Your impression of antiquity/negativity seems incorrect, of the 1511 tweets I retreived that mention Perl, 312 contain “emotional words”. Of these, 77.2% contain positive language, and 22.7% contain negative language.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by Kent Cowgill

Kent Cowgill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:39 +0000

Awesome idea. I’m putting it to work.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by Dave Cross

Dave Cross — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:34:24 +0000

I’ve just started storing the data from a Perl Twitter search. I’ll be trying to do some kind of analysis later.

See http://perlhacks.com/2009/09/perl-twitter-feed.php for more details.

Comment on Perl on Twitter by Dan Magnuszewski

Dan Magnuszewski — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:41:18 +0000

I’m in the process of replying to people in a similar fashion to you (with tweetdeck and searching on Perl). This is something that the Perl Foundation PR committee will be building on going forward. My plan is to allow multiple people to have access to the @perlfoundation Twitter account to answer questions as they arise, or post positive information/events about Perl. This will show that the Perl Foundation and language is alive and active.

If you’re interested in being part of this, let me know.

Dan Magnuszewski
@magnachef

Comment on Vacation and PHP by brad

brad — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:42:36 +0000

Perhaps I never stumbled into the correct channels or cliques in the PHP Community, but I don’t see PHP doing much in the way of repairing the enormous problems. That said, PHP’s simplicity has been it’s greatest strength and greatest weakness. Perl has a lot to learn from PHP in regards to marketing and adoptation.

My problem was less with PHP in general and more with a particular kludge of code left by a self-declared PHP Wizard.

Comment on Vacation and PHP by Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:58:46 +0000

Just replace Perl by Python and PHP by Perl in your article and you get the standard inflammatory post we all hate.

Comment on Using POE to hook syslog-ng by Ty

Ty — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:08:13 +0000

Great post. I use POE to serve as a application request server and it has not failed me yet.

Comment on Perl is Dead by Markus Zeller

Markus Zeller — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:05:27 +0000

I am using perl for years and never really wanted to change to another “web”-language. Many of peoply are using php, python and ruby in those days.

Until now, there is no other way for me to have such a quick way doing in things from the scratch with perl.

Unfortunately, some customers force me to use php, but whenever it’s possible I am using perl.

I really tried to like php and it has many nice and plenty of functions, but perl is my all time winner.

My favourite feature of perl is are quoting methods like $text=qq~Mix so many quotation signs as you like and this is still interpolated~. There is no better way of the map-grep-sort-join family imported into a another language.

PERL, I LOVE YOU FOREVER!

Comment on Perl Iron Man Contest by mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:59:13 +0000

while I think Perl is … well you know. Alls I know is, we all need to band together to CRUSH RUBY! There is nothing worse than a hipster twit with thick rimmed glasses and one of those fake mohawks telling me ruby on rails is the best. Fuck him, and fuck ruby.

Comment on From cfEngine to Puppet: A retrospective by Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:49:32 +0000

30MB for a simple pcap application? Yikes.