Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On 9 June 2011 13:39, Imre Saling imre.sal...@saling.ch wrote: or to get the elapsed time since the last call to elapsed():  my $t0 = time;  sub elapsed { ...  } sub start { return $last = time; } sub lap { my $t = time; push (@laps, $t - $last); $last = $t; return

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Crawford
On 20 April 2011 11:59, Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk wrote: Go ahead and write CPAN modules requiring perl 5.12 and up to date Moose then watch organisations throw Perl out the window and replace it with Java. Like I'm seeing right now because they end up stuck requiring particular

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Crawford
On 20 April 2011 12:12, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:06:27PM +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: It is frustrating to try to get a recent version of anything at all onto a server that's destined to sit in a data centre for five years, and needs to have a relatively

Re: Back on topic: Buffy Reboot

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Crawford
On 23 November 2010 17:00, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net I'm hearing murmurs that say Joss Whedon isn't actually involved in this - how good could it be ? As good as the original movie. Which I liked, but I have unusual tastes :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

2010-04-12 Thread Bill Crawford
On 11 April 2010 14:50, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net wrote: Hi All. Sorry for the top posting, but I feel this may help highlight the point. I booked a place for the Tech meeting tomorrow, but due to complications with my upcoming move, I now can't go. So. One seat/list