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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
(email not shown publicly)
http://www.astray.com/
Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
Friday September 21, 2007
05:07 AM
RailsConf Europe 2007 slides
RailsConf Europe 2007 happened in Berlin earlier this week. Were you there? I wasn't, but luckily I can check out the slides. My highlights:
- JRuby on Rails at ThoughtWorks (PDF) on why Ruby sucks and why JRuby works for them
- Utilizing Amazon S3 and EC2 in Rails (PPT) has some good use cases for S3 and EC2
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No continuations? (Score:1)
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Well but I've only recently started looking into Continuations in Perl, and that's after working in the language paid-full-time for 7 years. They're very slick and very cool, but not required to make working code that pays the bills and keeps the lights on.
As for half of CPAN not working, I'm fairly certain more than Half of CPAN is not XS code. I bet in the Ruby world more than half their Gems don't use the C-API. All of that will run perfectly well. Besides it is early in their language's life-cycle. I'
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You're right that not half of CPAN uses XS, but I bet at least half of CPAN relies on some module that does, of one of it's many dependencies does.
It would also pretty much eliminate the whole mod_perl/Apache world with it's stability and maturity.
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Are you confusing continuations with closures?
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