Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-12 Thread Ricker, William
> Am I reading this right? Are you actually defending the lowest common > denominator of language design? The paragraph above Not language design but coding in an appropriate subset. English and Perl are both special because TIMTOWTDI. My personal toolkit at the office is a more HOPish sty

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Tilly
On 9/11/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:18:57 -0700 > >On 9/11/07, Palit, Nilanjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] >> > It is very bad form to use map as a looping construct. >> >> Can you elab

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2007-09-12 Thread Ronald J Kimball
17 people came to yesterday's tech meeting. I started off the meeting by telling people about ack, a powerful alternative to grep written in Perl. Its features include automatically skipping of "uninteresting files" (backup files, revision control directories, etc.), highlighting the found text,

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:40:40 -0700 On 9/11/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:18:57 -0700 > >On 9/11/07, Palit, Nilanjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: