Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs) by Nathan Wiger- February 15, 2001 Edward Peschko wrote:> > > I personally think that this is something Larry is going to have to> > decide. However, I would like to note that leaving these off by default> > lowers the transition curve to Perl 6 immensely for those people that> > use Perl as a gluescriptingsysadmin language.> > Right, but what I don&39;t understand is that its two extra characters at the end> of a command line... whats the big deal about typing &39;-q&39; on one line in>...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.porters/2001/02/msg206.html Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs by Edward Peschko- February 15, 2001 > I personally think that this is something Larry is going to have to> decide. However, I would like to note that leaving these off by default> lowers the transition curve to Perl 6 immensely for those people that> use Perl as a gluescriptingsysadmin language.Right, but what I don&39;t understand is that its two extra characters at the endof a command line... whats the big deal about typing &39;-q&39; on one line in scripts Its easy enough to advertise &39;-q&39; and put it in big...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.porters/2001/02/msg205.html Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl by John van V.- February 11, 2001 Hiya, I wasnt expecting this but here is my $.02,Eric Raymond, is interesting but his contribtution is going to cause a lot moregrief than contracting revenue and salary bonuses.Perl is frozen at 5.5.3 for me, which is not a problem. I would like a virtualmachine built into the kernel, but more than anything, my industry (unix) needsa rock solid kernel to get control of the operations. Edward Peschko and Simon Cozens :> > Perl usage has grown respectably, but the language itself has...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.porters/2001/02/msg204.html Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl by Edward Peschko- February 9, 2001 On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:06:46PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:> Eric Raymond&39;s book-in-development The Art of Unix Programming&39;&39; says> this about the future of Perl:> > > Perl usage has grown respectably, but the language itself has been stagnant> > for two years or more.> > Bah. Looks like my Perl5-Porters summaries have been completely in vain. :)yeah, he&39;s full of BS here.> > If that other is Perl 6, I don&39;t think we&39;re stalled, are we...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.porters/2001/02/msg203.html |