You post invites the question:
How many internal/script-driven systems have you seen
over "a few" years old
maintained by at least "a couple" different people,
that don't end up a train wreck?
The need to revamp a system is often more a question of when.
So, you get to that point, and the question becomes:
do we keep this funky old perl, or start from scratch with something relatively tidy and popular from a staffing perspective?
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Regular expressions are by no means a perl-only feature.
Possibly not the best example of why perl is shunned.
Perl is simply not winning the marketing war.
Grades haven't mattered much since Vietnam came, and accurate grading might have meant someone getting drafted.
As with the rest of life, you get from education what you will.
Once I figured that out, and concentrated on learning because ignorance is a bore, not because the school system was much help, life improved.
Makes sense. The value of Boost::Regex is the natural C++ interface. I don't think there is a whole lot of substantial difference between the Boost license and BSD.
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So, is anyone willing to hire an old perl guy to work on RoR projects?
Ah, but can you're having one of dose excerrent Hindi-tinged accents, sir?
Jus' doin' mah job. ;)
What is the airspeed of an unladen, drunken Australian magpie that is pining for the fjords?
Oh, the correlation was found, but you had to look at the evidence in a "special" way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry
Oh, grow up they do, eventually chirping: "Fark this nest, we no digg it no mo'."
Yeah, but after the chicks grow up, they get off digg and spend more time on /. instead.
"Looking at your posting history, you have entirely too many /. comments with Subject=='Hrmm'"
You post invites the question:
How many internal/script-driven systems have you seen
over "a few" years old
maintained by at least "a couple" different people,
that don't end up a train wreck?
The need to revamp a system is often more a question of when.
So, you get to that point, and the question becomes:
do we keep this funky old perl,
or start from scratch with something relatively tidy and
popular from a staffing perspective?
Regular expressions are by no means a perl-only feature.
Possibly not the best example of why perl is shunned.
Perl is simply not winning the marketing war.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter
For example, I get into an argument with Kurt Cobain every time I hear "Come As You Are":
"And I swear that I don't have a gun"
Yes, you do.
"No, I don't have a gun"
Yes, you do.
"No, I don't have a gun"
Yes, you do...
/.ing have decoupled me from the requirement to have an actual person to talk to.
Years of Nirvana and
Grades haven't mattered much since Vietnam came, and accurate grading might have meant someone getting drafted.
As with the rest of life, you get from education what you will.
Once I figured that out, and concentrated on learning because ignorance is a bore, not because the school system was much help, life improved.
Confucius say, Evan Sayet right.
My nerve damage, bitterness and cling-on attitude resulted from an iPod accident, you privileged, condescending elitist. :'(
losing your right hand a "minor" injury.
But in /.-land, a tremendous setback to the love life.
I get a little thrill of victory every time I block one of those things, it's great.
Who is pleased easily is pleased often.
This is /., where over-engineering would be considered a virtue if laziness hadn't won out.
A: Satriani is a messenger from God.
You can will an N810 inside your laptop?
[gently nods head in respect tinged with envy]
Now if we slap a UI on it and make it asynchronous, we reach the nirvana of GUITAR.
String handling like you've never felt it before!
More to the point, how much hardware would remain on the shelf without a little Redmond Driver Judo to throw the hardware into the shopping cart?
No no no, my friend: you must get the new 640GT: more aerodynamic.
Makes sense. The value of Boost::Regex is the natural C++ interface. I don't think there is a whole lot of substantial difference between the Boost license and BSD.
I iNsist oN tHe rIght tO uSe zAmbinian cAmel cAse.
So, you've implemented a perly regular expression library in straight STL?
Yuda man.