Re: [Boston.pm] June meeting w/ Charlotte - Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda talks Slashdot, Perl, moderation, and more!

On 6/29/21 10:50 PM, Bill Ricker via Boston-pm wrote: *Logistics* - get link here just-in-time or via MeetUp(.)com as seen on Twitter

[Boston.pm] Fwd: RIP Jeff Goff

Forwarded Message Subject:RIP Jeff Goff Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:11:31 -0400 From: James E Keenan To: ny.pm , philadelphia...@pm.org, TPM Long-time Perl 5 & 6 contributor Jeff Goff, known on IRC as Dr Forr and known to many of us from his talks at YAPC::

Re: [Boston.pm] delete($_[2]); doesn't

On 12/19/19 5:22 PM, Conor Walsh wrote: That's not how delete works in this context. Try $_[2]="changed!"; perldoc warns about delete on arrays: Calling "delete" on array values is strongly discouraged.     The notion of deleting or checking the existence of Perl array     el

Re: [Boston.pm] Changing line number reported by errors

On 10/25/19 9:17 PM, Greg London wrote: ahh... #line that's it! $. wouldn't work for me becuase the filehandle is long since closed by the time I do the eval(), so it will come back 0 I'll have to prepend #line to the eval string and figure out the line number to put there, but that'll make

Re: [Boston.pm] Changing line number reported by errors

On 10/25/19 12:22 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: my understanding (to be corrected by greg) is that an error in evaled perl code reports the line number in that code. he wants the line number of the eval call itself. he can use __LINE__ to get that when he checks the eval for any errors in the slurped

Re: [Boston.pm] Changing line number reported by errors

On 10/25/19 12:19 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: On Oct 25, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: On 10/25/19 12:03 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH via Boston-pm wrote: I haven’t tried this, but according to the documentation for $. ($INPUT_LINE_NUMBER), you should be able to assign a value to

Re: [Boston.pm] Changing line number reported by errors

On 10/25/19 12:03 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH via Boston-pm wrote: I haven’t tried this, but according to the documentation for $. ($INPUT_LINE_NUMBER), you should be able to assign a value to this which Perl will use for reporting: another idea: __LINE__ is a compiler generated value of the c

[Boston.pm] Job: Perl Team Leader

Perl Team Leader $75/hr+ DOE Long term contract Boston, MA My client is seeking to hire a Perl team leader. This role will manage both a local Boston team and an off-shore team. You need to have strong Perl skills and will be asked to take a Perl test. The job is 75% onsite in Boston with an ini

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

On 09/10/2017 08:09 PM, Bill Ricker via Boston-pm wrote: Current meeting - Tues, Sep 12th - The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Damian's keynote ( from TPC / YAPC::NA) ROOM TBD - watch Email or @BostonPM twitter or Wiki for room # when confirmed ! The Damian Conway gave one of his rapid-paced, w

[Boston.pm] For Sale: Knuth boxed set

hi, i have a boxed set of knuth's algorithm books for sale. list price is about $100. make me an offer if you want them. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] lots of free perl books

hi all, we are downsizing and i have a shelf or so of perl books to give away. they range from the pink camel (perl4!) to mastering algorithms in perl to perl for dummies! they are generally old and some are pretty useful still. email me or call me at 781-643-7504 if you are interested in the

Re: [Boston.pm] Porting perl + perl app from linux to OS X?

On 05/29/2017 05:03 PM, James Eshelman wrote: I’m running a perl app with its own lean and mean packaging of perl and libs (to minimize portability issues) on linux and MSWin. I’d like to port this whole package (i.e. the linux version + lean perl) to OS X if it’s reasonable. I took a brie

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeting with randal schwartz - thursday 5/4

On 05/04/2017 05:34 PM, Conor Walsh wrote: I'm setting out shortly, my route is going past a grocery store. Any thing I should grab last minute? maybe cole slaw or something like that? possibly drinks of some sort. uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list B

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeting with randal schwartz - thursday 5/4

On 04/29/2017 07:02 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: hi all, we have a (not so emergency) social meeting on this thursday, may 4th, with special guest, randal schwartz! it will be a potluck grilling party at my house in arlington center. bill ricker has graciously offered to convey randal here. we

[Boston.pm] social meeting with randal schwartz - thursday 5/4

hi all, we have a (not so emergency) social meeting on this thursday, may 4th, with special guest, randal schwartz! it will be a potluck grilling party at my house in arlington center. bill ricker has graciously offered to convey randal here. i will send out the address later this week. here

Re: [Boston.pm] invading your town next week

On 04/27/2017 10:16 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Bill" == Bill Ricker writes: Bill> ​Since Friday may be crowded by Cinco de Mayo and normal Friday crowds, Bill> perhaps we should celebrate the nerdly May The Fourth (be WithYou) holiday Bill> Thursday ? ​ I'm up for that. As far as I know,

Re: [Boston.pm] script works ok on command line, hangs when run from shell script

On 04/27/2017 12:47 PM, Mike Small wrote: Hi again. Maybe O_DIRECT is the flag you seek? i suspect this has nothing to do with buffering. greg said he has an issue with stopping the whole script pipeline with ^C. when stopping a pipeline you issue a signal to a process group, not to a single

Re: [Boston.pm] catenation of undef with string, 2 cases

On 11/09/2016 03:24 PM, Mike Small wrote: Uri Guttman writes: On 11/09/2016 02:04 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: I think Uri and Ricky have it nailed. You can wrap with do{ no warnings; ... } or protect the concatenation with 42 . ($b//q()); or equivalent ?: or or use $b .= 42 ; if order doesn&#

Re: [Boston.pm] catenation of undef with string, 2 cases

On 11/09/2016 02:04 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: I think Uri and Ricky have it nailed. You can wrap with do{ no warnings; ... } or protect the concatenation with 42 . ($b//q()); or equivalent ?: or or use $b .= 42 ; if order doesn't matter (it usually does, though) or initialized $b to '' instead o

Re: [Boston.pm] catenation of undef with string, 2 cases

On 11/09/2016 01:40 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: On Nov 9, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Mike Small wrote: #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl use warnings; my $a; $a .= '70'; my $b; $b = 42 . $b; print "$a, $b\n"; With the script above I get an uninitialized value warning from perl 5.24 for the second concatenat

Re: [Boston.pm] Join DFW.pm for a talk on dataflow

On 08/08/2016 04:30 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: Hi all, I will be giving a remote talk to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Perl mongers (dfw.pm) on Monday night August 8, at 8pm CDT (GMT - 500). This talk will be about dataflow, a way to organize and architect your software which has many advantages. It is

[Boston.pm] Join DFW.pm for a talk on dataflow

e* to dfw.perlmong...@gmail.com and we'll add you to the online classroom. -- Tommy Butler, John Fields, DFW.pm I will aim to answer questions via hangouts chat. thanx, Uri Guttman ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.o

[Boston.pm] perl readings

hi all here are a couple of perl readings that should be of interest to your groups. slashdot did an interview with larry which is getting raves (even on slashdot!). of course the ironic thing is many slashdotters despise perl even with slashdot running on perl! https://developers.slashdot.org

Re: [Boston.pm] perl6 lists

On 06/24/2016 12:11 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: you seem to be confusing dereferencing from flattening. flattening needs be done explicitly in perl6 whereas in perl5 it always happened. perl6 seems to take references to aggregates in lists instead of flattening. and congrats on winning the

Re: [Boston.pm] perl6 lists

On 06/24/2016 12:01 AM, Greg London wrote: Can't seem to wrap my head around perl6 lists. i can stick my nose in here but don't quote me on it! They're not arrays. They seem to exist almost as literals. When I assign a list to an array, it stops acting like a literal list. the big diff that i

[Boston.pm] send me to yapc::na

hi all, i am between jobs and actively looking (any leads are welcome!). i am looking for help with expenses to go to yapc in orlando. i have set up a go fund me account at: gofundme.com/28j4c5w it already has $925 of $1500. and larry and gloria wall have donated! this can be a loan or a do

Re: [Boston.pm] perl sockets and memory use

On 06/02/2016 12:04 PM, ja...@nova-sw.com wrote: I'm dealing with a very long-running simple real-time program (weeks, even months) which opens and closes sockets continually to a variety of locations, for very short transactions.There is very slow growth of virtual and real memory use (e

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Announcement: TPF to send a few first timers to YAPC for $50. Register soon.

hi all, this is a great offer if you have never been to yapc. uri Forwarded Message Subject: [pm_groups] Announcement: TPF to send a few first timers to YAPC for $50. Register soon. Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:42:47 -0600 From: David Oswald To: pm_gro...@pm.org Ne

[Boston.pm] i like perl so much that ...

i like perl so much that ... i went to see itzhak PERLman last night at symphony hall playing with the klezmer conservatory band. also i won't be able to attend the meeting due to schedule conflict. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] finding more mongers

On 02/25/2016 04:16 PM, Anthony Ball wrote: I stopped going when the meeting moved further into the city (many many years ago). Now I don't even live in MA any more, and don't even know where the meetings are held, actually, but location may be an issue. not sure what you mean further into t

Re: [Boston.pm] finding more mongers

On 02/24/2016 11:47 PM, Conor Walsh wrote: I often have a similar conflict with a different thing that often meets on Tuesdays. On Feb 24, 2016 10:33 PM, "Rachel Adler" wrote: I'm new to Perl and haven't had a chance to come to a meeting yet, but I know that the second Tuesday of the month is

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2016 Update #2 -- It's Orlando!

Forwarded Message Subject:[YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2016 Update #2 -- It's Orlando! Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:54:08 -0500 From: YAPC Admin Reply-To: ad...@yapcna.org To: annou...@yapcna.org Hello fellow Perlers! I am pleased to be able to bring you

Re: [Boston.pm] Tomorrow: Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

On 11/09/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: November Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas​[image: external image camelia-logo.png] Get Ready To PartyTue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376 9.30pm *Larry Wall* (appearing by tape delay) Continuing our season series for the December 2015 launc

Re: [Boston.pm] Tomorrow: Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

On 11/09/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: November Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas​[image: external image camelia-logo.png] Get Ready To PartyTue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376 9.30pm (*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish 372 first door that

[Boston.pm] Monty! Python! Holy! Grail!

hi to all you coconut lovers, the arlington regent theater (http://www.regenttheatre.com/) is showing a 40th anniversary sing-along version of monty python and the holy grail, tomorrow night, wednesday october 14 at 7:30. yes, there is only one song in the movie (knights of the round table) but

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, Tues 10/13 : Perl 6

On 10/13/2015 02:51 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: TONIGHT -- Any more RSVPs ? Real working Perl 6 code ! Perl 6 v1.0 to release for real in 10 weeks ... website has relaunched. This is a very good thing, a long time in coming, it's going to be fun ! bill +1 uri _

[Boston.pm] Fwd: Re: Launch of new Perl 6 homepage

here are some good links about larry's talk and the (soonish) perl6 release. uri Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Launch of new Perl 6 homepage Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:12:42 +0100 From: Steve Mynott Reply-To: Steve Mynott To: london...@groups.perlists.pm

Re: [Boston.pm] larry perl6 talk

On 10/06/2015 09:51 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: However, finding video of Larry's recent talks is difficult, so i don't know if it will be found in time. As you might infer from my statement above Tom and I have been looking. ​I did find *one* Larry talk from after 2015 was announced 9 months ag

[Boston.pm] larry perl6 talk

hi all, larry has apparently officially announced perl 6. this was in slashdot but i knew about the talk from the sf.pm list. http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-unveiled-perl-6/ i am under the impression the video of this talk will be out and maybe we can watch it at

[Boston.pm] code review of short ETL script

hi all, i would like to add to tonight's agenda a code review of an ETL script i just finished up. it is fairly short but does a bunch of interesting things and it is table driven, a design concept i use a lot. of course you can heckle the code as much as you like and i will steal any good id

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Perl 5.22 & Modern Perl: TUESDAY

On 09/07/2015 11:18 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: by the time you read this, it will ALREADY be TUESDAY even though it feels like Monday. RSVP if you can come please. +1 uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/lis

[Boston.pm] sunset tonight

hi all, there won't be a sunset tonight due to the storm. but we will still be meeting at the sunset grill in allston at 7pm to bid farewell to ronald, fearless leader emeritus! i left my name with the host and we should be fine for tonight. they don't take reservations so we will meet at th

[Boston.pm] [Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting Tuesday, Aug. 11 (tomorrow)

hi all, we are convening a social meeting to officially change over the position of fearless leader of boston.pm. ronald kimball who was our first (and best!) fearless leader is moving to minnesota. our long time interim fearless leader, bill, can finally remove the interim. we will be celeb

Re: [Boston.pm] website problem

On 06/28/2015 05:44 PM, dan moylan wrote: 1st: in my code: $fll = "/home/moylan/www/cgi-bin/stuff/moyts6.log"; $fhl = new FileHandle (); i know you haven't touched your code in ages but filehandle.pm has been deprecated for over a decade! in fact it is just a wrapper around IO::Handle

[Boston.pm] cleaning up unicode to ascii?

hi all, i have a db which doesn't like unicode (and to get it to accept it may require a complete debug of the DBD stack!). we get a rare error of a unicode char in a string. what is the easiest way to just delete that char and note that it was deleted? it is in a perl scalar and not marked a

Re: [Boston.pm] April meeting fREW's "Miscellaneous Debris: Docker, DBIC, and Dogma"

On 04/14/2015 12:20 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Any more RSVP for tonight ? - Bill can't make it tonight. uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] damian visit to boston?

hi all, sorry to report but damian has told me he will likely not be able to do any side trips on his visit this year. he might not even come over for oscon. i can't get into the reasons but he regrets not being able to do it. he looks forward to next year when things should be easier for him

Re: [Boston.pm] boost::format to sprintf, or how do I get a substitution with a substitution in it?

On 04/03/2015 08:59 PM, Greg London wrote: s/format\((.*?)\)(.*?)\.str\(\)/something/g The problem is I need $1 and $2 to put into sprintf but I before I do that, I also need to take the '%' operators in $2 and replace them with ',' and THEN put it back in. Things started to get hairy, and I wa

[Boston.pm] damian visit to boston?

hi all, damian hasn't visited our area in a good long time. he does go to cities where they pay his expenses and he gives those amazingly crazy lectures we all love. well, we can get him here and the expense number he gives me is about $1k (hotel, air, food). i already have pledges of about $4

Re: [Boston.pm] March Meeting Tuesday - Messaging Middleware with AMQP and RabbitMQ

On 03/09/2015 08:29 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Uri Guttman <mailto:u...@stemsystems.com>> wrote: is this in person or remote video? ​ This is a live, remote speaker. ​ Isn't living in the future great ? i'll be impressed when you have

Re: [Boston.pm] March Meeting Tuesday - Messaging Middleware with AMQP and RabbitMQ

On 03/08/2015 08:50 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: March 10, 2015 Topic: Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ and RabbitMQ Date: Tue 03/10/15 Time: 7:00p - 10:00p Classroom: E51-376 Speaker: Mike Stemle, Jr. About the Speaker Mike Stemle.jpeg Mike Stemle, Jr. is a Sr. Software Engineer with more than 16 years of profes

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2015 - Hotel Information & Call for Talks

Forwarded Message Subject: [YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2015 - Hotel Information & Call for Talks Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:57:10 -0600 From: YAPC Admin Reply-To: ad...@yapcna.org To: YAPC Announcements ===

[Boston.pm] ride share to pm meeting

hi all, i can give a lift to burlington from alewife or the arlington/lexington areas to the meeting. let me know if you want a ride. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::NA::2015: Salt Lake City: June 8-10, 2015

hi all, yapc::na 2015 in salt lake is alive!! check it all out and spread the word. thanx, uri Forwarded Message Subject:[pm_groups] YAPC::NA::2015: Salt Lake City: June 8-10, 2015 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:44:08 -0500 From: James E Keenan To: n...@lists.pm.

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Mechanical Fourier Analysis

On 11/13/2014 02:10 PM, belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: Awesome videos about a mechanical harmonic analyzer http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5HNqGNW5AeEwq that is rather amazing. it actually taught me more about fourier analysis than i recall from school. i know the concepts an

Re: [Boston.pm] November tech meeting Tuesday : Mojo, Moo, Dbic, Google Api

On 11/10/2014 04:47 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: TUESDAY (Tomorrow, or today if it's morning already when you read this) November 11, 2014 (that's a Federal/Bank holiday ... does that bother anyone? wearing Poppies welcome) i plan on being there. uri __

Re: [Boston.pm] Help with symbol table munging...

On 10/29/2014 03:07 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: On Oct 29, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: hi ricky, i am somewhat confused as to your goal. you want each sub to use a common %map? why not have them access it directly from the base package? Hi! There are actually three different

Re: [Boston.pm] Help with symbol table munging...

On 10/29/2014 02:47 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: Hi! I'm running into an odd desire, and I'm hoping someone here can at least tell me where to look, as so far Google and DDG are not telling me what I want. I have a bunch of modules which have the same subroutines in each. Mostly, the code

Re: [Boston.pm] Symbolic Matrix math in perl?

On 10/21/2014 07:05 PM, ja...@nova-sw.com wrote: Anyone know of a perl package that does symbolic math on square 2-D matrices w/ complex-valued variables? There's one in python (Sage) for algebraic number theory that seems a bit of overkill, and Wolfram and MathWorks are a bit pricey for thi

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Tech meeting Tues Oct 14th - Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs

i will be attending ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] JOB: 4 month contract

hi all, my client has an opening for a perl hacker for a 4 month contract. the rate is about $55-60/hr. it has one very interesting benefit - work at home 4 days a week and 1 day on site (downtown boston) for meetings and such with the full team. they are looking for a solid experienced perl

[Boston.pm] social meeting 8/18

T and parking can be a pain. there are other dim sum places in chinatown so recommend them if you can. rsvp to the list if you can make the date and we (or i) will pick a place to meet. once we have it, we will put it on the meetup too. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl

[Boston.pm] tech meeting ideas

st and at meetings. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] August - Social meeting ?

sum lunches (harder for us to do that). any interest? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/bo

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

i will be there (first time in a while without a scheduling conflict) also zak did a lightning talk of this at this past yapc. is there going to be pizza? uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter

Re: [Boston.pm] ver 5.20 of perl?

ld be a fairly large matrix. best to just read the deltas from N1 to N2 and stop where you feel comfortable for your upgrade. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm ma

[Boston.pm] ISO: job for writer and more person

ssions are usually better received than outside ones. feel free to ask me stuff off list and to send any links off list too. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm ma

[Boston.pm] JOB: perl dev and devops - local work from home

samples of your perl code or cpan id. this would be a good chance to change your commute habits and spend time in your pajamas or with the kids! :) send your resume to uri AT perlhunter.com. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: Ricardo Signes "1.21 Gigawatts" Tuesday 5/13 @MIT

On 05/12/2014 02:58 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Next meeting Tuesday, May 13, 2014 sorry, can't make it. can i get access to the video stream afterwards? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunte

Re: [Boston.pm] *useful* use of `scalar`

can you compare the versions and see if my conjecture is correct? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Local and remote perl jobs

. email me at u...@perlhunter.com for more info about the jobs and to discuss them. send me a resume in PDF and samples of your perl code. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [Boston.pm] perl program to count distinct values - can it be made faster

core shell tools. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Last night's talk, // the "slides"

er off the ground with less work on my part and to also allow easier changes later on. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://m

Re: [Boston.pm] Last night's talk, DBD::ADO

he rescue!). There are many languages that can take advantage of these factors. Perl is bad at both. not really. perl can do both seek and sysseek and can random access fixed size records easily. no worse than any other lang for that. and you mentioned mmap which it can do too. thanx, u

Re: [Boston.pm] January topic?

d this is real world production code for my current job. i am waiting the feedback as i want to improve it. it is parsing a wacky input feed, loading it into a db and now i am working on extraction code. if you like slices, this code is for you! uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

On 12/13/2013 10:17 AM, Morse, Richard E.MGH wrote: On Dec 12, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: you wish to publish all my probing questions, witty comments and general gibberish? i want major royalties!! In that case, I think I want lieutenant royalties. (Or, even better, captain

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

witty comments and general gibberish? i want major royalties!! thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Boston.pm] do we have a quorum?

On 12/10/2013 05:21 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: i haven't seen many rsvp's yet. if only a few are going to show up due to weather and such, i would just as soon punt to next month. I've got 6-7 RSVPs, so normally expect 9+-, m

[Boston.pm] do we have a quorum?

i haven't seen many rsvp's yet. if only a few are going to show up due to weather and such, i would just as soon punt to next month. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://Perl

Re: [Boston.pm] ?instances of classA contained in classB, and instances of classB contained in classC ?

t; interface for all register types? I'm not familiar with this "table driving" approach. is there a >>short<< example on the web I could look at? hi greg, did you ever look at the table driven test scripts for my modules? i did a boston.pm talk about that design a whil

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

ines of P6 code from everyday life. * Some comparisons of P6 with P5. - http://sd.jtimothyking.com/tag/perl-6/ benchmarks Perl 6 tvs Perl 5. an excellent topic and those blog posts show some skills in p6 and speed. i will be attending. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl

Re: [Boston.pm] ?instances of classA contained in classB, and instances of classB contained in classC ?

ables in those tests you can see how variants were added. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] ?instances of classA contained in classB, and instances of classB contained in classC ?

too. OO could help but it may not be needed. i have done similar things for testing several of my modules. i even gave a pm talk on it many moons ago. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

[Boston.pm] Fwd: Larry Wall in a crossword puzzle!

Original Message Subject: [tpm] Larry Wall in a crossword puzzle! Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:43:10 -0500 From: Henry Baragar To: TPM Hello everyone, Checkout clue 65 in the crossword puzzle printed at http://thephoenix.com/Boston/recroom/156611-magazine-racket/. Regards, Hen

[Boston.pm] Emergency Social meeting this weekend?

hi all, i just learned the amazing abigail and his wife will be in town this weekend (10/12-13). anyone interested in putting together an emergency social? i could host a potluck brunch at our house in arlington if that works. i don't know where they are staying or what transportation they wi

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

painful but do you really want 128kb or similar vs multi-MB speeds for likely a similar cost? unless comcast is the only other choice. move to arlington which has 3 competing cable/fibre vendors. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [tpm] Damian Conway talk details! Tue 6 and Thu 8 August, 2013

hi all, maybe someone here can make it to toronto for one or both of these damian talks. we have to get him here next year!! thanx, uri Original Message Subject: [tpm] Damian Conway talk details! Tue 6 and Thu 8 August, 2013 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:42:25 -0400 From: Rich

[Boston.pm] Job: Burlington with Financial/Customer skills.

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Re: [Boston.pm] printing Perl code (hardcopy)

tures like function and file index pages, custom header/footers, watermarks etc. i did lots of perl and c source printing with it and doodled more code and edits on paper. ain't done that for a while. i miss being able to sit by a lake or in the shade and coding away. uri -- Uri Guttman

[Boston.pm] going to yapc?

hi all, just wondering who is going to yapc::austin? i and the wife will be there. she wants to see austin. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

On 05/13/2013 11:27 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Let's keep those RSVPs coming ... i am gnawing at the bit to show up! uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

On 04/08/2013 08:37 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Have a speaker, one RSVP, and me so far. Who else is coming? i plan on attending. uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] post damian interest to list

On 04/08/2013 06:14 PM, Wayne Tackabury wrote: Hi Uri: Gaah, what was the timeframe on this? I can't find your original mail. unknown time but my guess is around mid-july as he will be in the states for oscon. when he will detour to boston is unknown. i will ask him what possible dates i

[Boston.pm] post damian interest to list

hi all, if you and/or your company is interested in contributing to a damian visit, please post to the list. a couple of you have posted privately but it is better if all see the level of interest and hopefully they will be encouraged to join in. i would say we have about $300 in support fro

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

On 04/08/2013 08:35 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:20:16PM -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote: Regardless, my understanding was that although perl's sub calls are somewhat expensive ... I think it's *method calls* that are expensive, not subroutine calls. The reason being that t

[Boston.pm] damian talk this summer?

hi all, recently i asked damian conway if he would be interested in visiting boston and doing a talk here. he would come if we can cover his local expenses and his schedule works for a visit. this is something toronto has done a couple of times. if he just comes here for a talk his expenses w

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

On 04/06/2013 10:30 AM, John Redford wrote: David Larochelle writes: Are languages that have mark and sweep garbage collection better about returning memory to the system than languages like Perl that use reference count garbage collection. Programs that want to do this kind of thing -- a

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

On 04/05/2013 11:22 PM, Jerrad Pierce wrote: at each level of recursion. What seems to be the case though is that when we start going bac up the stack that memory doesn't seem to be released at each pop. If, say, at max depth 500mb of ram has been allocated I don't see that released at any poin

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

On 04/05/2013 08:13 PM, Adam Russell wrote: I am currently in the midst of implementing a fairly non-trivial recursive algorithm in Perl. The depth of the recursion is quite large, so much so that I have set no warning recursion which warns with a depth over 100. This seems pretty small to me! If

Re: [Boston.pm] perl constants

On 03/05/2013 05:02 PM, Mike Stok wrote: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/belfast-pm/2004-February/002482.html might be interesting. schwern's code uses @EXPORT and Exporter to do the actual exporting. it could also be modified to take a list of key/val pairs so you could call it like: econs

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