Are you so sure that he's not getting paid to post these stories?
Yes.
I mean, you could believe that a marketer somewhere coerced both the journal author into writing the one-paragraph blurb and Taco into finding and publishing it, but Taco's way too lazy to make a conspiracy work.
When I was ten years old, I was riding in the car with my father and I realized that just about everybody everywhere who had a job eventually sold something. Maybe they didn't sell it directly, but their business eventually sold things. I don't understand why some people on Slashdot find it surprising that many of the products discussed on this site are available for sale -- or do you think Microsoft pays for all of the Vista stories here, just to keep their names in the geek public eye?
... there are so many ways to write something that invariably people will use what they are comfortable with but necessarily what someone else would use, so you get a lot of different coding styles which make it very hard to debug and support.
I've found the same in any language, when you take into account maintenance concerns regarding naming conventions, indentation and bracing styles, the length of functions and methods and classes and modules, the presence or absence of design patterns, custom libraries, and domain knowledge. You can look up syntax in the manual.
If you want coding standards for Perl (and if you want to produce maintainable code in any language, agree on some sort of coding standards within your team), start with Perl Best Practices and use the Perl::Critic distribution to identify places for improvement. Then, of course, practice all of the other important development practices such as comprehensive testing, refactoring, code review, and the like.
After that, if you still can't produce maintainable Perl code, I'll buy you a cookie.
So this is the third slashvertisment for this movie in a week.
Yeah, how dare the founder of this site post things that interest him? I'm as incensed as you are that not every article posted here in the past decade has amused me sufficiently, for free.
You're seriously saying that Xenocide is better with it's deus-ex machina ending?
What's so deus ex machina about supernatural love particles which can instantly raise the dead, create vaccines, dissolve missiles, and transmit information faster than light?
That's if you take Joseph Campbell seriously. I don't recommend it; he either overlooked plenty of research that contradicted his conclusions or deliberately omitted it.
Most people don't know HOW to program. Its a very tiny and small percentage of humanity that does. Its akin to how many people know how to fix their own cars. Thats why we have auto mechanics who fix other people's cars. Most people while they COULD, don't want to bother learning how to fix their own cars. Same with software. So this "Freedom" that free software is protecting is a "freedom" most people don't even WANT to begin with.
Most people don't want to run for office.
Most people don't want to give speeches criticizing the government in public places.
Many (most?) people don't want to vote.
Good luck convincing them to give up those freedoms, too.
That'd be ironic; ESR's one of the people who organized the previous incarnation of the Open Source Awards, of which I understand some recipients never in fact received their promised awards.
I purchased an expensive HP printer for the office, and yet HP refuse to provide me with the PPD files for it.
You can probably extract it from the Windows driver. Unless something has changed dramatically since I most recently touched a printer driver, HP's drivers tend to include PPD files.
Yes; it takes plenty of processor time, electricity, memory, bandwidth, and administrator time to make sure that you don't get spam. Also, not everyone uses e-mail the same way you do. Some of us actually want to hear from people we don't know.
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The solution is not to hire barely-competent monkeys if you care about the results.
If that's really true, then your problem is not Perl, is not technical, and no language will solve your problem.
Multi-level marketing schemes are alive and well. I figure they've made it to the Internet.
Someone has to be paying them anticipating getting a return.
Shouldn't a copywriter get a lot of advertising messages?
Yes.
I mean, you could believe that a marketer somewhere coerced both the journal author into writing the one-paragraph blurb and Taco into finding and publishing it, but Taco's way too lazy to make a conspiracy work.
When I was ten years old, I was riding in the car with my father and I realized that just about everybody everywhere who had a job eventually sold something. Maybe they didn't sell it directly, but their business eventually sold things. I don't understand why some people on Slashdot find it surprising that many of the products discussed on this site are available for sale -- or do you think Microsoft pays for all of the Vista stories here, just to keep their names in the geek public eye?
I've found the same in any language, when you take into account maintenance concerns regarding naming conventions, indentation and bracing styles, the length of functions and methods and classes and modules, the presence or absence of design patterns, custom libraries, and domain knowledge. You can look up syntax in the manual.
If you want coding standards for Perl (and if you want to produce maintainable code in any language, agree on some sort of coding standards within your team), start with Perl Best Practices and use the Perl::Critic distribution to identify places for improvement. Then, of course, practice all of the other important development practices such as comprehensive testing, refactoring, code review, and the like.
After that, if you still can't produce maintainable Perl code, I'll buy you a cookie.
Subscribers can be incensed if they want. That's up to them.
Yeah, how dare the founder of this site post things that interest him? I'm as incensed as you are that not every article posted here in the past decade has amused me sufficiently, for free.
... can't or won't write good Perl.
If they ever optimize away all of the network programming and end up with only simple loops, they should consider migrating to Python then.
Do you really think Twitter's bottleneck is anything other than IO? How does C improve network latency?
Hey, I even know what "PC Load Letter" means.
I agree with both parts of that.
Why would you ever wish prison rape on anyone?
What's so deus ex machina about supernatural love particles which can instantly raise the dead, create vaccines, dissolve missiles, and transmit information faster than light?
That's if you take Joseph Campbell seriously. I don't recommend it; he either overlooked plenty of research that contradicted his conclusions or deliberately omitted it.
You're not a fan of anti-fraud, consumer protection, truth in labeling, and HIPPA laws either, I take it?
Most people don't want to run for office.
Most people don't want to give speeches criticizing the government in public places.
Many (most?) people don't want to vote.
Good luck convincing them to give up those freedoms, too.
Hey, I'm embarrassed too. I stuck up for Taco.
That'd be ironic; ESR's one of the people who organized the previous incarnation of the Open Source Awards, of which I understand some recipients never in fact received their promised awards.
That wasn't the editor. That was the story submitter.
... given that Perl 5.10 came out a few months ago.
PERL isn't even in the list, you nut.
You can probably extract it from the Windows driver. Unless something has changed dramatically since I most recently touched a printer driver, HP's drivers tend to include PPD files.
Yes; it takes plenty of processor time, electricity, memory, bandwidth, and administrator time to make sure that you don't get spam. Also, not everyone uses e-mail the same way you do. Some of us actually want to hear from people we don't know.