... ... (Eclipse is) ... There is some truth to that - it took me probably 4 or 5 hours spread over two or three days to where I felt comfortable, had a menu...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 6, 2005 8:09 pm
... Yes, vim is also cross-platform, and extensible. I am reasonably sure that neither vim nor emacs offer: * Refactoring support (extract subroutine) -...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Jun 6, 2005 7:36 pm
... Emacs is just as cross-platform and extensible. It may not be as sexy though. - Perrin...
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Chris Winters
winterschris
Jun 6, 2005 7:28 pm
... It's been on my radar for a while, hampered by the fact that my encounters with Eclipse to date have been just awful. It's not something you can just start...
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Curtis Poe
curtis_ovid_poe
Jun 6, 2005 6:44 pm
... There is. It's called "traits". http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pdf That paper outlines the problems with inheritance. It also...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Jun 6, 2005 5:26 pm
... It makes sense; I just think the implementation is lacking. It's supposed to be a workaround for the problems with adding functionality through...
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Curtis Poe
curtis_ovid_poe
Jun 6, 2005 5:04 pm
... There is no disdain for backwards compatibility. This has always been one of the biggest concerns of the Perl 6 development team. That is why Ponie is...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 6, 2005 5:00 pm
... There is a plausible scenario where a new generation of Perl power users are drawn to better tools and as a result create lots of less-insane code. If the...
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Terrence Brannon
princepawn
Jun 6, 2005 4:46 pm
... I think Perl 6 is the biggest danger to Perl's future. The main thing I don't like about Perl6 is the disdain for backwards compatibility: ? : is now ?? ::...
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Adam Turoff
ziggyatpanix
Jun 6, 2005 4:06 pm
... True, but any technique can be abused and lead to uncontrollable complexity. Structured programming isn't the savior it once was. The real benefit of...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Jun 6, 2005 2:29 pm
... Oops, I shouldn't write things like this when I'm half asleep. With South Korea, Starcraft would be the thing you'd have a hard time getting them to hand...
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Rob Kinyon
dragonchild93
Jun 6, 2005 12:31 pm
... North Korea. :-) ... I have a feeling that Eclipse + JUnit makes whitebox testing easier, but blackbox testing is going to be less emphasized. This ends up...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Jun 6, 2005 3:49 am
I want to say first that I would welcome improvements to Perl coding tools. For example, the existence of perltidy has been a big plus for me in recent years,...
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Chris Winters
winterschris
Jun 6, 2005 3:18 am
... I code Java in my day job with IDEA (www.jetbrains.com) and I'd LOVE something like this for perl. It's very difficult to impart how useful refactoring is...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Jun 6, 2005 3:16 am
... I'm currently using Kate, the KDE advanced editor, with perltidy bound to a hotkey. It hits the sweet spot between too GUI and too old skool for me, and...
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brian d foy
brian_d_foy
Jun 6, 2005 12:03 am
... See the perlfaq: I've listed most that I know about, and if some are misisng I'll add them. :) -- brian d foy <brian.d.foy@...>...
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Siegfried Heintze
Sieg_Heintze
Jun 5, 2005 11:59 pm
* ... Could you articulate these great editors and debuggers? Perhaps some URLs? Thanks, Siegfried [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 5, 2005 11:03 pm
... I have not yet tried this, but you might have a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Mock/ (DBD::Mock) I agree that we need something better, and...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 5, 2005 10:58 pm
First of all, thanks so much for your response. ... I think you are basically correct about that. I'd add code-assist and dynamic syntax-checking as well, but...
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Siegfried Heintze
Sieg_Heintze
Jun 5, 2005 9:57 pm
I looked at Test::Databaserow and it does not appear to be nearly as sophisticated as Java's DBUnit. I did a search for Test and Database and came up with...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Jun 5, 2005 5:15 pm
... I don't agree. I have several great text editors with debugger support for Perl, so your argument boils down to a lack of testing and refactoring support....
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matisse
Jun 5, 2005 3:40 am
I having been using Perl for over 10 years now, and have built some fairly complex applications for example several Employee Benefits Enrollment system, the...
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Terrence Brannon
princepawn
May 25, 2005 3:49 am
... sounds like an issue for the Bivio BOP yahoogroup! -- Carter's Compass: I know I'm on the right track when, by deleting something, I'm adding...
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ingo_1972
May 24, 2005 9:11 pm
Rob, thank you for your answer. My problem is that I have a script which uses Bivio. This is working fine. My task is that I have to move it to a different...
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Terrence Brannon
princepawn
May 24, 2005 8:31 pm
... ack. More of the Bivio self-containedness. ... http://www.metaperl.com/article-pod/Catalog-lazy_loaders/lazy_loaders.html ... yes, I call those lazy...
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robnagler
May 24, 2005 4:47 am
... These are configuration parameters. Bivio::IO::ClassLoader offers three services: simple imports, mapped imports, and delegated imports. The header...
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ingo_1972
May 22, 2005 10:16 pm
Hello, I'd like to use the IO::ClassLoader class. But the code die's at this line: Bivio::IO::Alert->bootstrap_die('maps must be a hash_ref') unless...
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alex_viggio@...
aviggio
May 19, 2005 4:52 am
Registration is now open for the Agile2005 Conference to be held at the Denver Marriott City Center July 24-29. We are offering a special discounted rate of ...
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robnagler
May 19, 2005 4:21 am
... Sorry for the late reply. Yes, we'll be doing something every now and then. It was a small meeting, but we all enjoyed it afaik. :-) Rob...
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Siegfried Heintze
Sieg_Heintze
May 6, 2005 4:37 am
Was this a one time event or can I expect to see more such meetings? I regret I was unable to attend. Siegfried _____ From: extremeperl@yahoogroups.com...
