use Perl

I have been prototyping a new threading system that's modeled after Erlang: threads share nothing with each other and can only communicate through a channel. I think that would be a better fit for background processes. You can find a rather old version on CPAN. I'm planning to push a largely rewritten version to github as soon as it's remotely functional again.

This is a reply to chromatic's post The Problem with Prototypes, but his blog didn't allow me to post it there so I post it here.

Pretty much everyone agrees that there are good (such as blocks and sometimes reference) prototypes and bad ones (scalar most of all). Few discuss the third class: the ugly glob prototype.

perlsub describes them as such:

As some may know, use 5.011 activates strictures. I think that's a good idea, but I don't think that's enough. I strongly feel that it should be more progressive than that. I think it should do what Modern::Perl aims to do implement: Some small, important and uncontroversial pragmas (as opposed to Perl 5i, which does do big and controversial things). My list of things would be:

I think this is a great idea. I suspect most people will but it for the first part, but they will (hopefully) read the second part too and start contributing to CPAN.

KiokuDB is a Moose based object database supporting multiple backend (filesystem, BerkeleyDB, DBI, etc...). You can read more about it here.

Reaction is a framework on top of Catalyst and Moose. It aims at making components more reusable. An introduction can be found here and here.

Both of them are examples of next-generation Perl projects.

Looks kind of interesting. I have the know-how, but not the time.

I really like the way you've solved this problem :-)

What about from?

use from 'Spreadsheet::ParseExcel' => qw(
        Workbook
        Worksheet
        Font
        Format
        Cell
        FmtDefault
);

Or something else that looks more like English.

Congratulations to the both of you :-)

I think this is bad advice. There's a new version of Alien::wxWidgets out already. Advising people to upgrade that is a far better idea IMNSHO.

Thanks a lot. The new preference removes the one complaint I had with the new layout.

I also noted the lack of a AMQP library for perl, and was also planning to jump in that hole when I have the time (not very soon probably). Good to hear someone is solving this issue :-).

That's not complex, just big. I once did a 18 fold join: that is much more complex (without using views it wouldn't have been manageable).

It seems that http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/ isn't being updated. That's a shame, because it is a good idea.

I don't know what your needs are exactly, but you could check Perl Dev Kit by ActiveState.