Hi all, Many folks were unable to go unfortunately. Btw, a lot of cool discussions are happening at PerlMonks. Let folks know that Perl has beaten C for the Mandelbrot shootout demonstration (not official).
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1129370 Many agree that Perl is not dead. Kind regards, Mario On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote: > Hi Jim > > > On 08/06/15 04:20, James E Keenan wrote: > >> ... to the awesomeness of CPAN testers. >> >> Sitting in the hackathon room at YAPC::NA::2015 in Salt Lake City, I got >> time and focus to evaluate a pull request for List-Compare. After >> digesting the request and running benchmarks on it, I applied it as a >> patch and made a new release to CPAN as version 0.53. >> >> A craving for caffeine came over me -- I'd been working since 6:00 am >> local time -- so I went to the lobby coffee bar and got some joe. I >> turn around and see Stevan Little. I said to myself, "Dammit Stevan, I >> haven't seen you since you moved to Amsterdam." We stop and chat for >> about half an hour. >> >> I wander back into the hackathon room and go to >> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=List-Compare. I see that, between >> Andreas, Slaven and others, v0.53 has already been successfully tested >> on multiple Linux boxes on every version of Perl from 5.8.5 to 5.22.0. >> >> The term "awesome" is very much overused these days, but I think this is >> a case where it hits the spot. >> > > Exactly. > > > Thank you very much. >> Jim Keenan >> > > -- > Ron Savage - savage.net.au >
