chromatic wrote:
produce a short, focused manuscript
This sounds remarkably like a series of technical books the began
being published in Massachusetts, in the late 70's or early eighties
- I think they were called the "berry-sized handbooks" or the "nuts
sell handbooks", something lik
chromatic wrote:
On Friday 14 July 2006 12:27, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
I should be more clear; I'm looking for 10-15,000 word short books on very
specific areas -- XML Processing with Perl, Writing Ajax Applications with
Perl, Refactoring Perl, et cetera. I'm not ruling out a book or discou
Why? Oh, why do people lately insist on offering up enticing tidbits of
/what is to be the next great ordained (core|6pan|etc)/ without offering
the community a chance to comment or participate? =(
Randy.
Well, in this case two reasons.
Firstly, although I have what I hope is a tentative man
Adam Kennedy wrote:
Unlike what others said, "core" perl shouldn't be the vehicle for
this, most likely, given the more stringent support and backwards
compatibility. We want to be able to change the composition of
"PerlPlus" overtime, and once things go into core, they're pretty stuck.
I sh
Unlike what others said, "core" perl shouldn't be the vehicle for this,
most likely, given the more stringent support and backwards
compatibility. We want to be able to change the composition of
"PerlPlus" overtime, and once things go into core, they're pretty stuck.
I should note for the rec
On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:03 PM, chromatic wrote:
On Friday 14 July 2006 17:59, Andrew Savige wrote:
I thought Chromatic might be the name of chromatic's father or older
brother.
No, that's Mixolydian and Ionian, respectively.
-- c
(Yes, of course my mother is Dorian. What were you thinking?)
On Friday 14 July 2006 17:59, Andrew Savige wrote:
> I thought Chromatic might be the name of chromatic's father or older
> brother.
No, that's Mixolydian and Ionian, respectively.
-- c
(Yes, of course my mother is Dorian. What were you thinking?)
--- Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:36:54AM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
> > Who's Chromatic?
>
> And it wasn't even the start of a sentence. :-)
>
> [When doing the perl 6 summaries, Piers reconciled the forces of accuracy and
> traditional grammar by ensuring by always rephras
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:36:54AM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
> --- Clayton O'Neill wrote:
> > I think a core difference between your list and Chromatic's is that
> > yours would be part of the standard library in a lot of languages,
> > whereas Chromatic seems to be aiming more for things that wo
--- Clayton O'Neill wrote:
> I think a core difference between your list and Chromatic's is that
> yours would be part of the standard library in a lot of languages,
> whereas Chromatic seems to be aiming more for things that would be
> part of the language.
Who's Chromatic?
/-\
On 7/14/06, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Look at the list of modules I include in my perl distributions for HP-UX at
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/#Perl and you might get an idea of what
I think are useful modules that my work more effective. Not quite like yours
is it?
I thin
On Friday 14 July 2006 12:27, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> A book like this is something that's been in the back of my mind for a
> while. If there were real interest in this topic (and I think there
> is), I would be happy to help out in a significant way, like writing
> several chapters.
>
> If so
Or, perhaps we need the "Perl CPAN Cookbook" -- which would be like the
Cookbook but focuses *only* on the greatest-hits modules across all the
same categories. If CPAN is one of Perl's greatest strengths, shouldn't
that get more attention, too?
Er, right. Now let me don my editor hat.
On Friday 14 July 2006 08:18, David Golden wrote:
> Or, perhaps we need the "Perl CPAN Cookbook" -- which would be like the
> Cookbook but focuses *only* on the greatest-hits modules across all the
> same categories. If CPAN is one of Perl's greatest strengths, shouldn't
> that get more attention
chromatic wrote:
Why is there not a Bundle::PerlPlus (and yes, I've lathered up my yak with
that name) that downloads and installs the modules that should have been in
the box?
For one, that should be "Task::PerlPlus". :-)
Second, for any pre-packaged distribution like Strawberry Perl (see
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:45:55 -0400, "Clayton O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Why off-list? this is a good reaction.
> On 7/14/06, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Look at the list of modules I include in my perl distributions for HP-UX at
> > http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/#P
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:52:02 -0700, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:37, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
> > If I got it right, the wish that was expressed is more like the wish for
> > an installer with a GUI.
>
> Nope, just for a nice, easily-installable bundle of mod
On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:37, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> If I got it right, the wish that was expressed is more like the wish for
> an installer with a GUI.
Nope, just for a nice, easily-installable bundle of modules that work around
the unpleasant backwards compatibilities and warts of Perl 5.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:25:51 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-14 00:55]:
> > Sure, but it's only one thing people need to remember. One
> > thing is easier than N things, especially as N changes every
> > time the core changes.
>
> Yes,
* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-14 00:55]:
> Sure, but it's only one thing people need to remember. One
> thing is easier than N things, especially as N changes every
> time the core changes.
Yes, I agree. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Bundle::PerlPlus
is a bad idea (though in addin
On Thursday 13 July 2006 15:40, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> People would install these modules anyway even if they
> never get into core or a Bundle::PerlPlus, if they knew that
> these modules are important to them in the first place.
That's really the point. Instead of saying, "Go install X and Y an
* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-13 23:25]:
> On Thursday 13 July 2006 13:32, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> >I thought that’s called “the core distribution.” NEXT is
> >already in there. So is List::Util (a big deal for me).
>
> Maybe for Perl 5.9.x... but how long will it be between someone
> rea
On 7/13/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why is there not a Bundle::PerlPlus (and yes, I've lathered up my yak with
that name) that downloads and installs the modules that should have been in
the box?
Sure, a Bundle::PerlPlus would be fun. Installing it wouldn't be.
Perl module instal
On Thursday 13 July 2006 13:32, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> I thought that’s called “the core distribution.” NEXT is already
> in there. So is List::Util (a big deal for me).
Maybe for Perl 5.9.x... but how long will it be between someone
realizing "Hey, SUPER should have been in Perl 5 from the start
* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-13 21:10]:
> Why is there not a Bundle::PerlPlus (and yes, I've lathered up
> my yak with that name) that downloads and installs the modules
> that should have been in the box?
I thought that’s called “the core distribution.” NEXT is already
in there. So is
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