Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:31:29PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: True, but I have not yet done a single animated slide in my life. Bullets, code and occasionally pictures slapped on a background are all I need. If I can start writing my slides in text templates, my personal satisfaction

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-06 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:42 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:31:29PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: True, but I have not yet done a single animated slide in my life. Bullets, code and occasionally pictures slapped on a background are all I need. If

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-06 Thread Bob Freeman
Anyone want to 'go there' on Tufte's thoughts on PowerPoint? ;-) Bob On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Ben Tilly wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:42 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:31:29PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: True, but I have not yet done

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-06 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Palit, Nilanjan nilanjan.pa...@intel.com wrote: From: Ben Tilly Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:34 AM Personally I don't like the way that Powerpoint is used because it encourages oversimplification. Also I think that spending great energy on fancy

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-06 Thread Andrew Langmead
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 08:59 -0600, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: I think it is really naïve to blame a tool for an outcome -- it's just as silly as blaming poor driving on cars/roads rather than the drivers! Please don't take this as trying to argue against your point, but this analogy has flaws.

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-06 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Palit, Nilanjan nilanjan.pa...@intel.com wrote: From: Ben Tilly [mailto:bti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:59 AM It appears that you didn't read what I wrote, then launched a rant that would be better aimed at someone else.I say this because I

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Uri Guttman
rl == rob levy r.p.l...@gmail.com writes: rl For reasons I think MJD explains the best ( rl http://lists.warhead.org.uk/ pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html ) rl Perl's macros will never be quite nearly as good as CL's defmacro rl or even Scheme's hygenic macros. So obviously Perl's

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Duane Bronson
Nice summary. Thanks for posting. He also mentioned that he has not come up with a good name for the new pattern matching syntax that is meant to replace perl5's regex. I applaud this renaming as regex (regular expression) is not very regular since it varies so much from grep/vim/sed/etc.

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen Jarjoura
How about ... Perls Extended Pattern Matching / Extraction Dialect PEPMED (and it's logo could be a cute little red pill doing jumping jacks) -- Stephen A. Jarjoura http://runester.com On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Duane Bronson bron...@real-time.comwrote: Nice summary. Thanks for

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread rob levy
Regex 6.0 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Stephen Jarjoura st...@runester.comwrote: How about ... Perls Extended Pattern Matching / Extraction Dialect PEPMED (and it's logo could be a cute little red pill doing jumping jacks) -- Stephen A. Jarjoura http://runester.com On Fri, Apr

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Jerrad Pierce
Surely the perl community can help him come up with a good marketing term that puts perl6 on the map regulexpressions? In a similar vein, a new mascot for perl isn't very easy to come up with. Nevertheless, an anime butterfly doesn't do it for me, even if the wings do include the characters P

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Bye, Roger
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Duane Bronson bron...@real-time.comwrote: However, perl6's pattern matching doesn't quite roll off the tongue as you might expect. Surely the perl community can help him come up with a good marketing term that puts perl6 on the map. P-Rex (the king of

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Nick Patch
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: In a similar vein, a new mascot for perl isn't very easy to come up with. Nevertheless, an anime butterfly doesn't do it for me, even if the wings do include the characters P and 6. Other than the camel, goats or mules

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Charlie
the small risk of humorlessness... Original message Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:58:55 -0400 From: Bye, Roger roger@sylvania.com Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk To: L-boston-pm boston-pm@mail.pm.org On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Duane Bronson bron...@real-time.comwrote

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Scaffidi
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Charlie creit...@rcn.com wrote: P-Rex is good! After all Perl regex _is_ the king of regex. All other languages, and many tools, have adopted it, akaik. Also, it is not sterile, easy to say and will look danged good on O'Reilly book covers. Dinosaur

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
From: boston-pm-bounces+nilanjan.palit=intel@mail.pm.org [mailto:boston-pm-bounces+nilanjan.palit=intel@mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of Jerrad Pierce Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:35 PM Other than the camel, goats or mules probably come closest to representing Perl's versatility I

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Jerrad Pierce
I think the Chameleon surely is a qualified candidate for the Perl6 Mascot job Indeed, and it keeps the camel root. A case could also be made for its mouth harboring a natural whip. Perhaps difficult to make cuddly/effeminate though, which seems to be one of his main goals. There's also the

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Scaffidi
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: I think the Chameleon surely is a qualified candidate for the Perl6 Mascot job Indeed, and it keeps the camel root. A case could also be made for its mouth harboring a natural whip. Perhaps difficult to make

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Friday 03 April 2009 13:38:09 Nick Patch wrote: Other than the camel, goats or mules probably come closest to representing Perl's versatility I think. Or maybe a mina bird, for it's mimicry abilities; everything's a dialect of Perl 6; and general cleverness. A platypus would be hard to

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Jerrad Pierce
I dunno about platypus versatility so much as contentder for designed by committee, but I opted not to proffer it earlier because it's the mascot of DarwinOS (OSS OSX core). http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ Definitely cute though. -- Free map of local environmental resources:

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Ben Tilly
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: I dunno about platypus versatility so much as contentder for designed by committee, but I opted not to proffer it earlier because it's the mascot of DarwinOS (OSS OSX core).  http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ Definitely cute

[Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Tom Metro
flucifr...@acm.org wrote: The first part was very fun, the second was computer language porn - several of the non-compiler crowd ran on that :) Lots of people, the hall was half full. I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers there, aside from Uri, of course, who

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Uri Guttman
TM == Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com writes: TM I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers TM there, aside from Uri, of course, who made a call for MIT faculty and TM staff to talk to him about YAPC (I don't think he got any takers, TM unfortunately; maybe we

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Stephen Jarjoura
Just for the record, both I and a co-worker were there as well. I mostly lurk on the list as there is little I can contribute ... but I'm a Boston.PM'er, too! I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there were 120..150 people present, then that's also the

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Nick Patch
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers there, I was there with a co-worker, but I don't come to many meetings. Larry made a request for people to download and test the current Perl 6

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Sartak
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Jarjoura st...@runester.com wrote: I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there were 120..150 people present, then that's also the approximate card count for his slide deck. He actually had nearly 500 slides. Shawn

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Sartak wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Jarjoura st...@runester.com wrote: I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there were 120..150 people present, then that's also the approximate card count for his slide deck. He actually had nearly 500

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Ricker, William
He actually had nearly 500 slides. And all in XUL, allegedly :-) There are a couple Perl based tools to generate Xul slideshows from an outline. I hope he used one of those, would like to know which. Probably can find out with google-fu, we won't be the first to ask. When the toolchain and

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Bill Ricker
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers there, aside from Uri, of course, I looked right at you! I was sitting between Bob R and Duane B a couple rows higher than you, to your right (stage

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Jerrad Pierce
I was also there, as was lurking member Alex Vandiver. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 19th of Discord, in the YOLD 3175: You don't need a Swiss Army knife to cut yourself, a piece of paper will do just fine. --JP

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: I was also there, as was lurking member Alex Vandiver. -- I went to both talks, and am glad I did. The openings were hilarious and hearing the perl6 stuff two nights in a row has inspired me to start playing with rakudo

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Tom Metro
Uri Guttman wrote: i would say more like 100 but i didn't try to make a better counting. I could see 2/3rds of the hall and did a partial head count. The right had 40 people, and the center had over 50, while the left, where I was seated, seemed more sparsely populated, so I estimated 120

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Uri Guttman
TM == Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com writes: ...but the rules engine is new ground... TM I figured you'd take note of that, given your rules engine work. very different rules engines. mine was about async logical flow control. larry's is grammar. i still haven't come up with a final

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Ricker, William wrote: He actually had nearly 500 slides. And all in XUL, allegedly :-) There are a couple Perl based tools to generate Xul slideshows from an outline. I hope he used one of those, would like to know which. Probably can find out with google-fu, we won't be the first to

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:12:00 -0400 Uri Guttman wrote: ...much of the rest was fancy ops and OO stuff... I remember the fancy ops but I don't remember much to do with OO, aside from some syntax variations (arrow changes to dot). I've

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Bob Rogers rogers-...@rgrjr.dyndns.org wrote:   Larry also mentioned that the Perl 6 MOP will support both class-based and instance-based inheritance -- and that's all he said.  I do not understand how the two can work together. having built one one the other,

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread rob levy
For reasons I think MJD explains the best ( http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html ) Perl's macros will never be quite nearly as good as CL's defmacro or even Scheme's hygenic macros. So obviously Perl's syntax is way too complex for Lisp-quality metaprogramming, but I

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Jerrad Pierce
At the MIT talk I almost asked a question can you talk a little about the macro system but it seemed like kind of an unrealistic request for the QA section so I chickened out. Well, it would have been better than the drawn-out query about Fortress, and wouldn't have prompted me to leave ;-) --

[Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Uri Guttman
just to confirm, larry's talk at mit will be at: april 1, 4:30pm room 34-101 who is planning on attending? i will be there. i am also asking sipb for a minute (and maybe larry will help me) to plug y...@mit and try to find a sponsor from the crowd or people they know. so any friendly faces in

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Scaffidi
I definitely plan on coming! On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: just to confirm, larry's talk at mit will be at: april 1, 4:30pm room 34-101 who is planning on attending? i will be there. i am also asking sipb for a minute (and maybe larry will

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Randy Cole
I'm planning to go to either the Harvard (3/31) or MIT (4/1) talks. Randy Steve Scaffidi wrote: I definitely plan on coming! On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: just to confirm, larry's talk at mit will be at: april 1, 4:30pm room 34-101 who is

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Martin Owens
Larry Wall? On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:27 -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote: I definitely plan on coming! On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: just to confirm, larry's talk at mit will be at: april 1, 4:30pm room 34-101 who is planning on

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Uri Guttman
MO == Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: MO Larry Wall? yes. have any of you been reading this list? there was a thread about his talks at harvard and mit. :) uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture,

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: Larry Wall? Yeah, you know -- the guy that first wrote Perl and (highly suspiciously, I think) has never been seen in the same room with Weird Al Yankovich? http://domm.plix.at/talks/2004_vienna_perl_culture/larry_wall.jpg

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread rob levy
Weird Al as Kaufmanesque fake persona, the deliberately annoying parody songster, played by guerilla performance artist, linguist, and programming language creator Larry Wall. I hope that is true, and it may render Weird Al less annoying. If I remember correctly, in one of his songs he refer to

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, rob levy r.p.l...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly, in one of his songs he refer to Javascript, but no mention of Perl that I am aware of. Of course not. That would be telling, wouldn't it? BCNU. -- Chris Devers