use Perl

Last week, I interviewed Bob Jacobsen for FLOSS Weekly. Bob used Perl's Artistic 1.0 license on some Java code to manage model trains. The code was later patented by an Oregon-based company(!) and then Bob got sued(!!) for Bob distributing the other company's patented code(!!!). The good part of the story is that this is the first test at the US Federal Appeals Court level for an open source license to be enforceable even if no money exchanges hands, and... we won!

Steve Bourne (Bourne Shell) was one of the authors of Algol 68. You should see the source code! It's all ALGOLIZED!

I just realized that message is probably insufficient. Here's the "dangerous use of ls" message, spelled out a bit better: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/5d19dadaf9329f87

"ls aggtests/pips/api/v1/xml/*.t"

"ls... glob" FAIL. Please don't do that.

Git is all about the commits. Commits have parentage. Commits are shared. And some commits have human-friendly names. Tags are one kind of names, and are semi-static. Branches are a different kind of name, but generally move over time. Also, branches are repo-local, where tags are generally shared.

I think if you define carefully what you want to know, there are lots of options on "git log" that will give you what you want. But in a proper repo, branches are generally rather ephemeral (provided you are using topic branches properly), so the "history of a branch" isn't all that useful.

Cringed as I was reading the slides... :)

What about all of perlboot?

I'm not interested in using the Opera browser.

END {
  print "$_\n" for sort keys %INC;
}

Since Perl doesn't even have "nil", wtf are you talking about?

I've always found File::Finder more intuitive. But that's because I wrote it. :)

Looks like the Perl hackers aren't the only ones who like the new Artistic 2.0. Apparently the band R.E.M. has chosen to release 11 of their videos under Artistic 2.0 for mashups. Wow.

Looks like the Perl hackers aren't the only ones who like the new Artistic 2.0. Apparently the band R.E.M. has chosen to release 11 of their videos under Artistic 2.0 for mashups. Wow.