... Yikes. Remember there's a clear separation of concerns between the customer and the programmer. Be sure to yell at your customer. ;-) ... Yup. I wonder...
... Perhaps you should pay them to upgrade. :-) Yes, you've got a logistical problem, and it sounds like you have a good solution for it. ... Interesting you...
... Yes, we try our best to automate everything. If we think there is going to be multiple upgrades, one of which is critical, we'll organize these in...
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Ed Grimm
ed@...
Feb 20, 2005 9:26 pm
... I'd prefer something like the described Haskell module, which apparently creates unit tests. That is, I'd like the module to build a test file, which does...
On 20 Feb 2005, at 20:58, Ed Grimm wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I don't understand why generated unit tests would be any more useful than including the module with...
YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can submit a presentation...
<quote src=http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/perl> CPAN ... The Perl community shares openly, because they're lazy, and want to solve problems once and only once. ...
... Difficult question. The folks who haven't worked at bivio, probably can't answer this question. Answers from bivions probably look like an excuse. Double...
... Well, just one unless you want to create a shell script: If you used CPAN, you could have a Makefile.PL whose PREREQ_PM specified all of the modules Bivio...
... If this weren't an XP list, I wouldn't belabor the point... This is not a business need. This is a technical possibility. The world is full of technical...
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We just got our copy of Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus. I did a quick scan through, and it is extremely impressive. It's a monumental work. It...
... I haven't scanned through the whole thing yet but I wholeheartedly agree. I like his approach of just diving into the subject -- he doesn't tell you:...
... [snip] Thirded. Extraordinarily nice book, showing a bunch of very useful techniques that many Perl programmers seem unfamiliar with in my experience. ...
... In that case make it Haskell so that : 1/ you can help out with Perl6/pugs 2/ you can use a truly pure functional language 3/ you can get strong typing -- ...
... Oh I get FP and static typing :-) I've done a far bit of ML in my time (many moons ago I worked on Poplog, a multi-language development environment that...
... The net effect of being a purely functional language is that Haskell forces you to decompose problems differently. For example, in any other programming...
... I always thought that was the customer's job. ;-) Seriously, is there any evidence that forcing programs to decompose problems the Haskell way is any...
... Higher order programming is a solid win. This is one of the main points behind functional programming in general, and Haskell in particular. (And, while...
... To wit: [06:28] [autrijus] shapr: I'm changing the Pugs evaluator into a compiler [06:28] [autrijus] shapr: without touching a line in Eval.hs [06:28]...
... Here's a working example. My earlier example was borked. mydat = [1 .. 4] trans1 x = [x] trans2 x = [x, x +1] trans3 x = [x +5] trans4 :: Integer -> [Char]...
... But the Relational Lisp took 3 hours to write, and Haskell took 8. I would argue that Perl is a lot more like Relational Lisp than Haskell. ... I was just...
... Surely you left off the disclaimer that you have defined the function correctly -- or does your typechecker magically reason that a square root function...
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David Wheeler
david@...
Mar 29, 2005 8:12 pm
... It seems to me that if you know nothing about logic programming, then you can't really think that way in Perl. If you learn Haskell, it can then help you...
