Re: Chromatics - Why is funding Perl So Hard

2011-11-18 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 21:49 , flebber wrote: > I was reading chromatics article on his thoughts on why perl funding > was so hard. While I personally find this conversation interesting, I don't think it's on-topic for the beginners list, so I think it would be better held elsewhere.

Re: Chromatics - Why is funding Perl So Hard

2011-11-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
"Perhaps backwards compatibility is cannibalizing usage from current" I agree with this. Python had a totally different approach and it seems that it was a good idea. It would be nice to have a Perl with strict and warnings enabled by default that could be disabled on request This way the mainta

Re: Customizing vi/vim for Perl

2011-11-18 Thread Juan Luis Aranda
2011/11/18 Parag Kalra : > Hi, > > I generally use vi/vim for my day to day Perl scripts. > > What are different packages I can use to make vi/vim extensively customized > for Perl.  For example -  it should be able inform me about the known > syntax errors like - variables not declared, missing br

Chromatics - Why is funding Perl So Hard

2011-11-18 Thread flebber
I was reading chromatics article on his thoughts on why perl funding was so hard. It can be found here http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/11/why-is-funding-perl-core-development-so-difficult.html Though i had other things to do, it sort of got to me. Couldn't stop thinking about it in the bac

Re: Customizing vi/vim for Perl

2011-11-18 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Parag Kalra wrote: > Hi, Hello: > I generally use vi/vim for my day to day Perl scripts. Same. B-) > For example - it should be able inform me about the known > syntax errors like - variables not declared, missing braces or > semicolons etc something

Re: Customizing vi/vim for Perl

2011-11-18 Thread Jim Gibson
On 11/18/11 Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:53 AM, "Parag Kalra" scribbled: > Hi, > > I generally use vi/vim for my day to day Perl scripts. > > What are different packages I can use to make vi/vim extensively customized > for Perl. For example - it should be able inform me about the known > syntax erro

Customizing vi/vim for Perl

2011-11-18 Thread Parag Kalra
Hi, I generally use vi/vim for my day to day Perl scripts. What are different packages I can use to make vi/vim extensively customized for Perl. For example - it should be able inform me about the known syntax errors like - variables not declared, missing braces or semicolons etc something whic