Comments on: Perl and Parrot – Baseless Myths and Startling Realities http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/ Listen. Reflect. Explore. Solve. Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TimBunce http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-84 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:31:26 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-84 Links to the slides and video of the talk I gave at IWTC can be found at http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/03/08/perl-myths/

]]> By: Julio Fraire http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-34 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:03:57 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-34 I am really impressed by Devel::Cover, which could make a nice introduction to the testing infrastructure that Perl offers. It could give you some minutes to talk about Kwalitee, CPAN testers and CPAN bug tracking tools. An often overlooked side of CPAN, in my opinion.

]]> By: Adam Marquis http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-33 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:31:54 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-33 Amazon.com uses Mason, if you are interested in another framework.

]]> By: Erez http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-26 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:10:16 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-26 For Catalyst a big-name-web-site built using it would do. Other cool gizomos need other killer examples. Got any suggestions?

http://del.icio.us usese Catalyst, I believe. Also http://www.dev411.com/blog/2006/09/05/perl-5-powering-web-2-0 for more examples

]]> By: Comparative Language Job Trend Graphs « Not this… http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-21 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:10:41 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-21 [...] the Perl community lacks vitality relative to other similar languages. Hopefully this post, and others, go some small way towards correcting [...]

]]> By: Barry Alistair http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-5 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:55:48 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-5 hi Tim,

Barry here from the Irish Web Technology Conference.

We’re really pleased to welcome you as a speaker to the IWTC 2008, and look forward to your presentation.

Should your readers also want to come and see your presentation in Dublin, there are numerous airlines flying into most UK airports – http://iwtc.firstport.ie/location.aspx – so there’s no excuse not to!!!

Tim, we also have a profile and abstract page for you – http://iwtc.firstport.ie/bio.aspx?sid=68 – please send in your details so we are able to publish.

I look forward to meeting you.
Best
Barry

]]> By: Dave Rolsky http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-4 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:42:49 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-4 I’d also consider mentioning Moose. It’s quite impressive once you realize everything you can do with it, and it also _looks_ really nice with its declarative syntax. Some highlights of Moose I’d mention are its type system (with coercions), roles, method modifiers, and attribute metaclasses.

Another cool thing about Moose is that it’s highly introspectable, so not only can you get all this cool behavior, you can know what you’ve done.

Personally, Moose is pretty much the most exciting thing I’ve seen come out of the Perl 5 world in quite some time, and I’m really enjoying using it for my projects.

Stop by #moose if you have questions.

]]> By: timbunce http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-3 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:19:25 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-3 Ah yes, Perl::Critic. Definitely worth a demo to a perl-sceptic crowd. Helps show that a language famed (or dammed) for having ‘more than one way to do it’ also takes best practices seriously. Thanks.

]]> By: aharoni http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/01/30/perl-and-parrot-baseless-myths-and-startling-realities/#comment-2 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:14:27 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-2 You mentioned perltidy; i am not a big fan of it, but i use Perl::Critic a lot.

A few days ago i did a 1-hour talk about it at Jerusalem Perl Mongers.

The talk was 100% improvised.

I started by installing Perl::Critic from cpan, and while make / make test ran, i explained about the book (PBP). When the installation was over, i started by writing a ‘Hello, world’ program, and ran it through Perl::Critic from gentle to brutal, showcasing .perlcriticrc, ## no critic, `perlcritic -list | grep PolicyName`, /xms regexes, and other things on the way.

The talk was planned for one hour, so i took my time, but it could be much shorter.

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