Slides for the talk catching-a-std at mkpm-july-2009
Catching
a ::Std
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BBC
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Film
at 11
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Matthew
Stephen
Trout
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Alumnus of
the Open
University
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Pure
Mathematics
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Shadowcat Systems Limited
http://shadowcat.co.uk/
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Lancaster,
North West
England
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Architecture
and process
management
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ARPAnet and the
World Wide Web
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Destruction
testing
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RDBMS
OO models
social
tolerances
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Collaboration
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Lunatics
Landlords
Volunteers
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Standardisation
in the perl
community
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What is a
standard?
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IETF
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RFC
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MUST
SHOULD
MAY
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TCP/IP
over avian
carrier
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What -is-
a standard?
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Specification
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Multiple
Implementations
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One
Way
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One
(True?)
Way
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Standards
and
Language
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Received
Pronunciation
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OED
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Webster
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Dialects
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Same grammar
Different
semantics
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NPW
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Scandiwegians
are confusing
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Mutually
Intelligible
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Ssyshere
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Standards
in perl?
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Well ...
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"whatever the
interpreter does"
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"whatever the
tests say"
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(so write more
tests for
smartmatch
dammit!)
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Standards
for writing
perl code?
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TMTOWTDI
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*sigh*
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TMTOWTDI
BSCIAGTT
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"timtoady
bicarbonate"
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(FFS somebody
come up with
a better name)
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Approaches to
standardisation
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Inferred
Invented
Enforced
Evolved
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Inferred
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UUCP
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perl
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Invented
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TCP/IP
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IMAP
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Enforced
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Java
JCP
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SMB
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Evolved
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POSIX
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LSB
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Scheme
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Standards
and perl6
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I'm a
skeptic
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... of perl6
the production
implementation
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I love perl6 the
language design
research project
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Inferred
from perl
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Invented
by @Larry
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Enforced
by the
standard
grammar
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Evolved based
on implementation
and use attempts
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"best
practices"
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PBP
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inventing
standards
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Class::Std
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ARGH
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"your code
caught a
::Std"
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What is
an STD?
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Sexually
Transmitted
Disease
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Maladie
Sexuelle
Transmitee
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Socially
Transmitted
Disease
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Cargo
culting
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Cargo
culting
gone
*good*?
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Veni
Vidi
Vici
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Vici
Veni
VD
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STDs and
the perl
community
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Why did
Class::Std
fail?
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Damian
ran out
of tuits
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but ...
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Revolution
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Incompatible
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Needed
everybody
to move
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Unperlish?
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Class::Std
and
Catalyst
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They came
I saw
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I threw up
in my mouth
a little
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CGI::Application
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too little
standard
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plugins
are a free
for all
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cohesion
failure
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Maypole
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sane
API
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tight
coupling
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TT
Class::DBI
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Class::DBI
imploded
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Maypole
died
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Catalyst
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request cycle
plugin API
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100+
plugins
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all play
nice together
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trivial
component
API
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100+
components
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all play
nice together
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Just Enough
Standard
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Class::DBI
->
DBIx::Class
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DBIx::Class
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people
deployed
trunk
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we went
stable
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I fought
against
it being
"the standard"
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... until the
Catalyst user
base voted
with their feet
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Standards by
social
transmission
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Enlightened Perl
Extended Core
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Next Talk.
This Room.
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evolved from
"what do the
experts consider
their standard
toolkit?"
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One
True
Way?
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One
Good
Way
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(Jesse made
us add
Catalyst)
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beware the
cargo cult
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the most
popular
plugins
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become the
template
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Catalyst
DBIC model
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same hacks
copied
EVERYWHERE
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RKITOVER
rewrote
it to be
beautiful
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Devel::Declare
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3 method
signatures
systems
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evolving
through
(ab)use
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5core later
by consensus?
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perl5i
Modern::Perl
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I may build
a third one
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or just
annoy
Schwern
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Moose
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I almost
moved to
python
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but I knew
perl was
capable of
awesome
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Moose
implements
that
awesome
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huge
adoption
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beautiful
code
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contagious
meme
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passing
Class::Accessor
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we don't want
to be in core
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all these
standards
will be
obsoleted
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DBIx::Class
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Fey::ORM
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DBIx::Class
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Catalyst
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HTTP::Engine
Path::Dispatcher
Bread::Board
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Catalyst
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sorry for
using my
favourite
projects
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they're the
examples
I know
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the principles
are general
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Catch an
STD today
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STDs are
for life
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not just for
christmas
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these slides
will be on
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Any Questions?
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Thank You
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