[Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
We may have a bit of an image problem. Perl was the #1 most disliked language in a recent poll on Stack Overflow. Surprisingly, Delphi was #2; I didn't think it was known and used widely enough to score that high on the list.

Re: [Boston.pm] CANCEL/POSTPONE Re: Tech Meeting ??Tuesday?? - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) "

2017-03-14 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
> As if it wasn't obvious ... > Meeting tonight is canceled, speaker and topic postponed to April 11th. > > Pi Day will be observed online. > > Bill Aside from simply looking out the window, or watching or listening to one of the dire weather reports, there is also the fact that MIT is closed for

Re: [Boston.pm] perl 5.10 memory leak?

2016-12-13 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
Is there a reason why you have to use 5.10.1? Upgrading isn't an option? On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Duane Bronson wrote: > Mongers, > > I've been trying to track down a memory leak in a long running perl script > that uses IO::All to write a bunch of files every few

Re: [Boston.pm] december meeting preview : Hadoop with Perl !

2014-12-02 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
The 350 was originally a semi-express bus that ran to Haymarket. It had a small number of stops up to Arlington Center and was a local after that. You paid a zoned express bus fare to ride it; how much you paid depended on how far out of the city you were going. When Alewife Station opened the 350

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: DSL recommendations?

2013-08-11 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
Megapath still offers DSL, though they're only marketing actively to business customers these days. But you're at the mercy of Verizon for the copper, and my recent experience is that it is a major problem. On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Boston.pm] C++ books

2013-04-15 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
I would highly recommend 'The Design and Evolution of C++' by Stroustrup. It's an older book now, but still was written with a great deal of perspective on the use of C++ and does a good job of explaining why many things are the way they are -- which of those things are for the best and which

Re: [Boston.pm] emergency social - tues 7pm, sunset grill and tap

2011-05-15 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 5/15/2011 8:30 PM, Chris Devers wrote: From a hotel near Faneuil Hall to Sunset in Allston, I'd say just take a cab. There isn't really a train that goes quite the right way. You can take the Green Line (B branch?) and have a pretty long walk up less-sketchy-than-it-looks Harvard Ave, or