in reply to Re^4: Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?
in thread Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?

Okay, so sounds like the strategy for perl 6 is wrong, and those guys have bitten much more than they can chew.... so what, Perl 6's resource problem should become everybody's problem?

You can't possibly want Perl 6 to happen more than I do, otherwise you'd do something about it like I've been doing for the past five and a half years. That's right -- I'm one of those guys.

I'm going to tell you this once, so read very carefully. Unless you contribute something to Perl 6, your opinion on Perl 6 is absolutely, completely, and unequivocally worthless. it's useless. It's not even worth my time to explain it to you while I could be working on Parrot (but I'm waiting for a compilation, so you get a bonus here).

This is free software, developed entirely by volunteers. You want it sooner? Do something about it, something other than moaning on the Internet about how volunteers aren't working fast or hard enough for you.

Unless you're willing to join the community, rather than expecting that some magic code fairies were just waiting for your stunning brilliance to tell them exactly what they should do without getting your hands dirty, your opinion is worthless, useless, ungrateful, and a complete waste of time.

You are welcome to use the software at any point. The code's been public for years. You're also welcome to wait until we volunteers decide to say "It's ready." If you think that makes you welcome to tell us what to do or how to do it, you're very, very wrong.

Join up or hush up. Your choice.

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Re: Join Up or Hush Up
by Petras (Friar) on Oct 17, 2007 at 02:25 UTC
    I'm not in a position to contribute much codewise, but I'd be happy if there were a manpage with all the FAQ in one place. Sure, it'd be a hefty long manpage, but seekers wouldn't have to check for their question in lots of different manpages....Wow I hope that this isn't one of those posts where later on I really, really wish I double checked the FM before posting! :~)

    -p
    Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

    -Howard Aiken
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      There's a Perl 6 FAQ at Programmer's Heaven, but it hasn't had an update in a while. Perhaps a little publicity would help?

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        From that FAQ: 
        my $int1 = 0;
my $int2 = 42;
my $string = "turbo";
say ?$int1;    # no output
say ?$int2;    # a 1
say +$string;  # no output - no number parsed from string

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        Is that correct? I thougt false changed from '' to 0 so the first marked 'no output' should print '0'.
        What about the last one? I would have expected that one too to print 0.
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