From jacoby.david at gmail.com Tue Mar 8 10:45:20 2016 From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:45:20 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Discussion Topic: Perl Jam Message-ID: Netanel Rubin presented a talk at the Chaos Computer Club called "Perl Jam". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQcWra6sbU Then he did it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH_u3C2WwQ0 The guy is a jerk and at least partially a troll. Because of this, I didn't finish the first video, and I haven't started the second. David Farrell wrote a response for Perl Tricks. http://perltricks.com/article/netanel-rubins-perljam-circus/ I'm not as sure as Perl Tricks that every criticism is invalid, but I am sure that most are invalid and trolling. I don't spend enough time in Python, etc., to Perl from an outsider, but I barely kept from yelling out "No, you don't expect that!" before I stopped. But, I would like to hear what others in the group think. -- David Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gizmo at purdue.edu Tue Mar 8 13:23:46 2016 From: gizmo at purdue.edu (Joe Kline) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:23:46 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Discussion Topic: Perl Jam In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <56DF42E2.9030708@purdue.edu> On 03/08/2016 01:45 PM, Dave Jacoby wrote: > Netanel Rubin presented a talk at the Chaos Computer Club called "Perl > Jam". > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQcWra6sbU > > Then he did it again. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH_u3C2WwQ0 > > The guy is a jerk and at least partially a troll. Because of this, I > didn't finish the first video, and I haven't started the second. > > David Farrell wrote a response for Perl Tricks. > > http://perltricks.com/article/netanel-rubins-perljam-circus/ > > I'm not as sure as Perl Tricks that every criticism is invalid, but I am > sure that most are invalid and trolling. I don't spend enough time in > Python, etc., to Perl from an outsider, but I barely kept from yelling > out "No, you don't expect that!" before I stopped. > > But, I would like to hear what others in the group think. Yeah, dudes a troll. I know someone that is working at mozilla and they pointed out to him (he did submit a bug report) that the problem wasn't really a problem and whatever problem he might have found was "fixed" in the current version of bugzilla. I'm not sure how arrays are more "secure" than hashes. Dude's just making hay from his first talk, "Hey I got some attention for ragging on Perl so I think I'll keep doing it." Perl has it's problems but any piece of code that is over 20 years does. However, it's always changing and fixing. It's not static by any stretch. joe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From jacoby.david at gmail.com Tue Mar 15 10:20:36 2016 From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:20:36 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] No Mongers This Month Message-ID: I passed responsibility for March to Joe Kline, and he failed to come up with a topic, so there will be no Perl Mongers this month. However, there is still going to be GLOSSY Open Source Food & Beer & Chat 7pm Wednesday at Lafayette Brewing Company. Please RSVP at opensourcelafayette.org and attend. -- David Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at purdue.edu Mon Mar 21 12:45:51 2016 From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:45:51 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] programming web browsers using Perl 6 Message-ID: <30563.1458589551@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> I learned about a grant that funds first steps towards running Perl 6 in a browser: https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/2016-11-js-fueling-up/ I figured this would happen eventually. I hate Java and JavaScript. It would be a pleasure if I could write code to run in browsers in Perl 6. Just another reason to use Perl 6. I haven't looked into this yet but wonder if Perl 6 could be used to write GNOME plugins and extensions. That would be nice. -mark From jacoby.david at gmail.com Tue Mar 29 13:23:12 2016 From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:23:12 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] April Perl Mongers: We Need You All! Service Guarantees Citizenship! Message-ID: To avoid having to recreate the event by hand, the powers of GLOSSY have used Meetup's scheduled meetings to put GLOSSY Open Source Food & Beer & Chat on the 2nd Wednesday. Traditionally, we've had Purdue Perl Mongers on the third Tuesday, which I moved to 3rd Wednesday so we can easily transition from PM to Chat by just walking (or driving) two blocks from MatchBox to Lafayette Brewing Company. I am not unhappy with the change. However, April 9 is TEDxPurdueU. TEDxPurdueU looks to be a good time, as good or better than TEDxIndy for a lower entry fee. I encourage you to consider attending, but of course you don't have to. I bring it up because I'm in the executive committee, which leaves me Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to pull together the DBIx::Class talk. I am behind on what I've been tasked to do before the event, both for TEDx and for other groups. So, I'm scratching DBIC until May and going forward with the idea i pitched for March: STARSHIP MONGERS! This follows the rules of Rasczak's Roughnecks from Starship Troopers: "Everybody fights! No one quits!" (I couldn't abuse the rules of Fight Club enough to make that work.) I'll be akin to a Lightning Talk format, 5 minutes on a topic of your choosing -- not necessarily Perl, not necessarily Programming, not necessarily computing, but consider your audience -- followed by a period of questions if we decide it is warranted. What you're playing with, what you want to work on, something that showed up on ComputerWorld the day before, whatever. Just talk for five minutes; experience shows that, if you're excited by the topic, it'll just fly by. This will be Wednesday, April 13, 6-7:30ish at MatchBox (assuming Wally or Broc get us the room), followed as per usual by GLOSSY Chat at Lafayette Brewing Company. Please RSVP for that, at least, so we know how big a table to ask for. I'll have the event on the GLOSSY calendar before too long. Plus, tell your friends, acquaintances, coworkers! See you there! http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Lafayette-Open-Source-Symposium/ -- David Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: