use Perl

• Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find (Score:2)

  by vek (2312)

  By the time I even find the search button here...
  
  You mean the one that's at the top right of the page?
  • Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Yeah, but the results aren't as good.

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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
    • Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find (Score:2)

      by vek (2312)

      I agree. I was merely commenting on the fact that Brian thought the search on use.perl was hard to find.
  • Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find (Score:2)

    by Dom2 (2981)

    Wow, you mean you don't use "light" mode? I can't stand the default slash look, turning on light mode makes both use.perl and slashdot much more readable. Have a look in your prefs...

    -Dom
    • Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find (Score:2)

      by vek (2312)

      Wow, you mean you don't use "light" mode?
      
      No, it looks 'orrible.
      
      I can't stand the default slash look...
      
      And yet you like "light" mode? Whatever blows your skirt up I guess :-)
      
      
  • Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    It's not necessarily at the top right. In the light version it is at the very bottom.
• I hear ya (Score:2)

  by delegatrix (506)

  We found Google search results so much improved over our search engine so we just went with Google as our search engine.
  • Re:I hear ya (Score:1)

    by da (1525)

    Hm, that's a pretty good endorsement: "search results good enough to satisfy the US census bureau".

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    -DA [coder.com]
    • Re:I hear ya (Score:2)

      by delegatrix (506)

      We never endorse anything. We're just satisfied users.
• bit of a shame really (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  Perl is quite capable of knocking the socks off googles generic crawler based indexing.

  Its not hard to write a basic search engine that delivers a lot more punch with a little knowledge of your application.

  Both use.perl and search.cpan as well as perl.com all suffer from fairly pedestrian search engines, comparable with the lame efforts of the average .asp site.

  --
  
  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
  • Re:bit of a shame really (Score:2)

    by pudge (1)

    It's mostly because of two things: limitations in MySQL's search abilities, and limitations in our time. It's on our wishlist, now that we can take advantage of MySQL 4.x.
    • Re:bit of a shame really (Score:2)

      by TeeJay (2309)

      Kind of Mysql's fulltext is limited, it isn't aware of your application and doesn't allow you to index accross objects or tables.

      It doesn't take that long to write your own and have much better results. I would love to work on the searching for search.cpan.org.

      If I had any idea how the data was stored and some sample data I would be happy to have a go.

      --
      
      @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
      print reverse @JAPH;