Monday, March 10, 2003

Behold, Apocalypse 6 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/07/apocalypse6.html My big hope for perl6 is that it will give rise to one or more pragmas that make sense for particular problem spaces (middle tier, presentation logic, etc). In other words, I hope that there is some way to constrain language syntax so that a team of perl programmers can more easily produce consistent code. That's the only problem I have with perl, and the only one I really want Perl 6 to solve. Part of me loves the idea of it supporting the kitchen sink of language paradigms (typed/typless, functional, macros) and domain specific languages, but I wonder how CPAN will evolve to cope with these divergent styles. 3:28:12 PM      comment []  trackback []

What do distributed compile farms, CPAN, trust metrics, versionable binary component libraries and p2p swarmed downloads have in common? Autrijus explains. [ From Simon Cozens ] Sure beats XCOPY deployment. :-) 11:00:23 AM      comment []  trackback []

TDS Server in perl? http://search.cpan.org/author/BDULFER/Sybase-TdsServer-0.06/ I haven't quite figured out why a SQL Server/MockObject like this is useful, but it sure does seems like a cool hack. 11:00:21 AM      comment []  trackback []