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This page documents some of the amusing things said in #parrot. It's not really useful, but it helps with -Ofun. Feel free to add your own quotes (preferably from #parrot or parrot-devel).
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Whiteknight> i'm going to solve this issue if it kills me
Whiteknight> and then I'm going to be all like "oh noes, it killz me! LOL"
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particle> don't touch that code! it worked yesterday. mostly.
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chromatic> Mac OS X will eventually provide a single header, called "oohshiny.h"
with a single function called "NSPushCandyColoredButton()".
Coke> I am drooling in anticipation of how shiny that button is!
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cotto> now to tackle "DOD"
moritz> department of defense? ;-)
szbalint> dangers of drinking
Infinoid> Donuts On Demand
chromatic> Donut Order Detection
moritz> doughnuts of desaster
szbalint> DOD Ought Dereference
chromatic> DOD of Recursing Daemons
Infinoid> devil's own doggy
Infinoid> deathtrap of despair
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particle> $haze_the_new_guy->()
whiteknight> am I still the new guy?
particle> if you have to ask...
whiteknight> damnit
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particle> i'll work on a shell alias for maek without a macarthur grant.
particle> i'm not proud.
chromatic> Scab. You're pushing wages down.
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chromatic> ...and I'll slap the hand of anyone who suggests that we need to *mark* and *sweep*
these elements -- if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, I'll take away your birthday.
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Whiteknight> well, I'm sorry to hear that. Speaking of wireless networking, I'm about 30 seconds
away from breaking my goddamned router into a billion pieces
Infinoid> chances are, it isn't running my code then :)
Whiteknight> no, it's some piece of shit netgear router. worst. router. ever.
rurban> who in the world buys this crap
Infinoid> Whiteknight, apparently
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Whiteknight> We have an RT ticket that requests the creation of a BigNum PMC. ergo, I am writing one
Whiteknight> and when we decide that it's a stupid thing to have, we can open a second ticket to have it removed
Whiteknight> ...and I'll rake in the karma on both transactions :)
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Coke> We do not need to reinvent every wheel. We're already reinventing several as it stands.
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chromatic> But we have backwards compatibility with Perl 4 to consider, so we can't change too much.
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chromatic> Want to work on a GC?
PerlJam> GC is completely opaque to me other than general concepts.
chromatic> Then you're qualified.
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Coke> Whiteknight: lucky for your, partcl doesn't use pct.
Coke> *you
Whiteknight> what does partcl use instead?
jonathan> Whiteknight: It's written in a combination of bf and lolcode.
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Whiteknight> oh great, I can just imagine what a recursive descent parser must look like in bf
chromatic> Just like any other bf code, really.
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NotFound> PerlJam: at least you realize that others countries exists ;)
pmichaud> NotFound: PerlJam and I are in Texas, so yes -- we know about the other 49 countries.
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davidfetter> sam adams?!? in portland? i'd think in a brewpub town like portland, he'd lose on the name alone
Whiteknight> yeah, that's why his opponent, Guinnes McBudweiser lost
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Infinoid> I didn't distill anything, I just wrote it from scratch with malice aforethought.
chromatic> Good. I'm concerned that we haven't done that enough recently.
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* NotFound thinks about developping a floating point format with negative NaN
Infinoid> how could you tell the difference between that and positive NaN?
NotFound> Infinoid: that's the beauty of that design
Infinoid> you could use negative NaN the way some perl 5 code uses "0 but true"
NotFound> Will look nice: a = NaN but negative :)
Infinoid> "They're just like normal NaN! Except they're EVIL."
NotFound> Wait, NaN is already evil enough :D
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japhb> OK, popping that discussion off the stack ...
we clearly support gcc 3.4. How much older than that do we still support?
rurban> 3.3 ?
particle> no
davidfetter> stack? i thought we used registers here ;)
particle> and don't even ask about 2.7
rurban> 2.95 is still quite popular in academia
chromatic> Academia should freakin' go outside once in a while.
japhb> chromatic++
chromatic> HELLO FROM THE 21ST CENTURY PLEASE JOIN US THE WATER IS FINE
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NotFound> "put exit at bottom or die" is valid perl6?
moritz> it's just a string literal ;)
NotFound> moritz: don't take it too literay
NotFound> literaly
Infinoid> metaphors are very literary.
particle> i never met a phor i didn't like (or is)
chromatic> I never metamodel not obsessed with reflection.
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alvar> allison: would it be a good idea to build something which
relies on threads on the current implementation?
allison> alvar: you will likely run into some rough spots in the
current threading implementation, but a real use for the
threads implementation is a great way to shake out the bugs
allison> alvar: so, I guess it depends on whether you're more of a
"mountain bike" or "racing bike" kind of programmer
Whiteknight> what's the difference?
Whiteknight> ...besides the number of crashes
Infinoid> big gnarly wheels and a penchant for running over small
woodland creatures
allison> alvar: "mountain bike" would be enjoying exploring rugged
terrain, not minding a few bumps
particle> the racing bike programmer wears a funny hat, too
chromatic> If a mountain biker sees a goat, that's wonderful.
If a racing biker sees a goat, something's wrong.
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chromatic> We're still bound by the metaphysics of the language which state
that there is no computer but a PDP and K&R is its prophet.
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Tene> Wait, you mean I need to READ?
Tene> I don't like the sound of this project.
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Tene> Arson is a significantly underused motivational technique.
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pmichaud> a failed Match is one where .to < .from
moritz> so you don't support reversed Match objects? ;-)
pmichaud> I do not.
pmichaud> *something* has to be straight>forward< somewhere!
pmichaud> :-P
PerlJam> Just following the precedent of the arrow of time? :)
pmichaud> It's a darn good precedent, and anyone who disagrees can go
back and fix it.
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Coke> ... you know, I really am not a fan of doing xml and text manipulation in Cold Fusion. :P
particle> i know a language you can use to make that fun.
particle> c!
Infinoid> I've yet to find a language in which xml manipulation was fun.
confound> LOLCAT
* Infinoid shudders at the thought of doing xslt transforms in lolcode
chromatic> You can remove "in lolcode" from that sentence and it's still true.
particle> Infinoid: you obviously haven't been introduced to LOLPATH
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chromatic> svn: Working copy path 'docs/book/appb_patch_submission.pod' does not exist in repository
chromatic> Joy.
chromatic> That's almost enough to make me want to put on leather pants and let Git hit me in the
head with a baseball bat again.
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bacek> whatever :)
bacek> English is my forth language.
bacek> After Russian, Rude Russian and Very Very Rude Russian :)
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chromatic> Okay, serious question time. Why are some functions in src/gc/dod.c marked with PARROT_API?
chromatic> "Hello embedders! I sweep the memory pools and make allocated thingies go away!
Call me sometime big boy!"
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tewk> If I add a STRING ATTR to a PMC do I need to write a custom mark routine?
wknight-work> I would, yes
Tene> It's gotten to the point where I think someone's talking about lolcode
whenever I see people using ALL CAPS for a few words.
wknight-work> i can haz all caps?
Infinoid> caps lock is cruise control for AWESOME
Tene> Yes, but you still need to steer.
TimToady> that's a bunch of bull
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