Re: Feather accounts available for new users

(This message is primarily for those who know what feather is, or do not need guidance to find out. That's why I'm not going to introduce feather, and will just assume you know about it already.)

That statement is 36 words long. Is feather something so complex that it can't be explained in 36 words? A google search for "feather perl" yields 217,000 hits most of which are about "Birds of a Feather" meetings at OSCON or some reference to Apache's feather icon. The most relevant one was a perl6 message from you which also failed to describe what "feather" is, although it appears to be a machine rather than a software. Yes, sure I could dig further to find out what you are talking about, but why should I bother?

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Re^2: Feather accounts available for new users by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 08, 2006 at 18:49 UTC
Feather is a box Juerd keeps up to date with the latest Pugs and Parrot code. He gives out accounts to people who'd like to help develop the two. (29 words; weird golf challenge.)	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 08, 2006 at 19:54 UTC
Feather: Juerd maintained box with latest Pugs, Parrot code. Accounts available to developers. (13 words; weird golf challenge.) DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^4: Feather accounts available for new users by rob_au (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:01 UTC
Feather: Maintained box with Pugs/Parrot. Developer accounts available. (9 words; weird golf challenge) `perl -le "print unpack'N', pack'B32', '00000000000000000000001000000000'"`	[reply]
Re^5: Feather accounts available for new users by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:07 UTC
Re^6: Feather accounts available for new users by xdg (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:52 UTC
Re^6: Feather accounts available for new users by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 22:22 UTC
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2006 at 21:06 UTC
weird golf challenge 9: Feather is a test bed for Pugs and Parrot. -- John.	[reply]
Re^4: Feather accounts available for new users by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 22:24 UTC
9: Feather is a test bed for Pugs and Parrot. It is that, indeed. But feather is also much more than that, so I wouldn't say this is an appropriately complete description. If you don't want to have a complete description, you might as well suffice with a 1 word explanation: computer. Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:30 UTC
More like a newspaper headline challenge. :-)	[reply]
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Re^2: Feather accounts available for new users by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 22:27 UTC
A google search for "feather perl" yields 217,000 hits most of which are about "Birds of a Feather" meetings at OSCON or some reference to Apache's feather icon. That's funny, the second hit I get is http://perlcabal.org/cgi-bin/finger.pl, which provides a more complete view of what feather is than any of the descriptions in this thread. Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by cyclist38 (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2006 at 15:38 UTC
second hit here too. but then we're both searching from the netherlands...	[reply]
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