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03:37 pdurbin added command line options: --short, --whatis, --updated, --api-updated · 9ef3308 · pdurbin/api - https://github.com/pdurbin/api/commit/9ef3308263cff53780f776d8931a4e35519bbe43
03:37 pdurbin just in case you aren't following my every commit on github as i learn a little python ;)
03:38 pdurbin playing with optparse: Parser for command line options - http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html
12:16 SEJeff_work pdurbin, That url is borka
12:31 pdurbin SEJeff_work: d'oh! thanks. yes, i just renamed it: https://github.com/pdurbin/fasrc-api
12:31 pdurbin what's awesome is that people can still see where it's forked from: https://github.com/fasrc/api
12:32 pdurbin it made no sense to me to have a repo called "api" in my personal github account. api for what? i'm glad github supports renames and maintains the fork links properly
12:33 pdurbin anyway, sorry for the 404. i'm well aware of Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
12:33 SEJeff_work pdurbin, That kills kittens: https://github.com/pdurbin/fasrc-api/blob/optparse/modules#L10
12:33 pdurbin SEJeff_work: no. come on
12:34 pdurbin it's from http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/tricks.hawk
12:34 pdurbin "The variable hexversion is only available since Python 1.5.2, so we first check if it is there, just in case someone has an even older version."
12:35 SEJeff_work pdurbin, You should burn your eyes out after reading that
12:35 pdurbin see also discussion (with you) at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-05-02#i_5530001
12:35 SEJeff_work He is teaching you very poor python foo
12:35 SEJeff_work Yes I recall
12:35 SEJeff_work sys.version is how you check python version
12:35 pdurbin but but but. what if someone tries to run my script on python 1.5.2?? :)
12:35 SEJeff_work Or for programatically doing it...
12:36 SEJeff_work sys.version_info
12:36 SEJeff_work Sorry I said sys.version is a tuple, it is a string. sys.version_info is the proper way
12:36 SEJeff_work >>> sys.version_info
12:36 SEJeff_work (2, 6, 6, 'final', 0)
12:36 pdurbin when was sys.version_info introduced?
12:37 SEJeff_work You can use hexversion, it is just ugly is all
12:38 SEJeff_work Ah touche, version_info is "new in 2.0"
12:38 SEJeff_work But would you ever have anyone running python 1.x?
12:39 pdurbin SEJeff_work: who knows!
12:39 pdurbin check this out
12:39 pdurbin "Our community has a long-held belief that backward-compatibility is a virtue, even when the functionality in question is a design flaw. We would all love to unmake some mistakes we've made over the past decades. Living with every design error we've ever made can lead to painful stagnation. Unwinding our mistakes is very, very difficult. Doing so without actively harming our users is nearly impossible. Lately, ignoring or actively opposing compat
12:39 SEJeff_work Do you write C89 ANSI C so you can support sco unixserver?
12:39 SEJeff_work and aix 3 or 4?
12:39 pdurbin this is why i love perl. people care about backward compatibility
12:39 pdurbin unlike some other languages. . .
12:40 SEJeff_work Being a pragmatist, there is a point where I guess it just seems silly
12:40 SEJeff_work And perl has been around a lot longer than python
12:40 pdurbin sure, but it's a cultural thing as well
12:41 SEJeff_work Absolutely. Perl lets you do things 10 different ways, which results in impressively ugly code often. From using perl (and being NO expert) my take is that it is more difficult to write code in a language that has multiple ways to do the same thing vs a language that has less ways to do it.
12:42 SEJeff_work ie: Take 5 nontrivial perl projects and look at them. It will be like reading 5 different programming languages at times. I see that as a misfeature.
12:43 pdurbin SEJeff_work: let it out, man. it's ok
12:43 SEJeff_work Well you are much more fluent with perl than I. I'm asking your take
12:43 pdurbin gotta bike to work. brb
12:43 SEJeff_work k
12:46 pdurbin shoot. quote truncated! "Lately, ignoring or actively opposing compatibility with earlier versions of Perl has come into vogue. Sometimes, a change is proposed which wants to usurp syntax which previously had another meaning. Sometimes, a change wants to improve previously-crazy semantics. Down this road lies madness." -- http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#BACKWARD-COMPATIBILITY-AND-DEPRECATION
12:47 pdurbin madness!!
12:47 pdurbin ok, really going now :)
12:58 SEJeff_work Is perl 6 100% backwards compatible with perl 5.x?
13:01 shuff not to my knowledge
13:01 shuff but let me find something more authoritative
13:03 shuff http://perlcabal.org/syn/Differences.html
13:03 shuff http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6
13:04 shuff so, in brief, oh hell no
13:04 SEJeff_work Ha
13:05 shuff "String concatenation is now ~, the dot . is used for method calls."
13:05 SEJeff_work Ha
13:05 SEJeff_work Can't wait for pdurbin to get back in
13:33 pdurbin what, what?
13:34 pdurbin perl 6 is a different language! they should have called it perl++ or whatever
13:37 SEJeff_work :)
13:37 SEJeff_work So perl makes backwards compat serious business
13:37 SEJeff_work Like python :)
13:38 SEJeff_work which deprecates features generally over several releases
13:39 pdurbin there's no convincing the perl 6 guys to rename the language, from what i understand
13:39 pdurbin so it's up to guys like to explain that it's a different language
13:39 pdurbin guys like me
13:39 SEJeff_work python 3 is the same
13:40 pdurbin so you feel my pain
13:55 Pax hey folks, I'm working a problem, and i'm kinda wrestling with it, and also feel like I might be reinventing the wheel a bit, I figured I'd spit ball it with you all.
13:56 Pax So, I've got an apache module, and as part of it, I have two definition and create namevirtualhosts and virtual hosts
13:57 Pax most of the magic is actually in the template that they both use, now I've added Allow/Deny's to the definitions, but now need to add Allow/Deny's to *subdirectories* that are different from what the virtual host gets
14:02 Pax ug
14:02 Pax did any of that come through?
14:02 pdurbin gets... http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-05-04#i_5540326
14:03 pdurbin gets what? what?
14:03 pdurbin we are hanging on your every word ;)
14:03 Pax LOL
14:03 Pax So I need to be able to have Allow/Denies in the Vhost definition and the subdirectories that are different
14:04 pdurbin Pax: you know, i have a checkout of your code somewhere. . . have you committed already?
14:05 Pax so one thought I had was to just create a new value in the Vhost definition, something like apache::Vhost { 'foo': htaccess => array} and have array be path/ip's, and loop through that in a template, but that only works for 1 subdirectory
14:05 Pax then I thought, maybe I needed a custom type… but I may be over thinking
14:05 Pax pdurbin, let me check in my in progress stuff to dev
14:06 pdurbin bleh. svn ;)
14:06 Pax not all of us are as cool as RC :p
14:07 pdurbin http://blog.mattynick.com/blog/2012/02/08/moving-puppet-from-subversion-to-git-in-15-minutes-while-adding-dynamic-environments/
14:07 shuff fwiw, we're also squaring off against a similar issue over here
14:07 shuff (the vhost stuff, not the svn/git)
14:07 pdurbin and i really need some apache vhost management so i'm interested
14:09 Pax well, I kinda like what i've hot for ghost management, I think that those two definitions in there could actually be a single one, since they both use the same template anyway
14:09 Pax all checked in btw
14:10 pdurbin "Store password unencrypted (yes/no)?"
14:10 pdurbin geez, no, i guess
14:10 Pax I'm a little worried that I've duct taped and bubble gummed myself into a corner, but on the other hand it would be really cool to either create per <directory> Allow/Deny's in the ghost definition
14:11 Pax so the stuff I checked in works for (1) adding allow/denies to the virthost itself, and a single subdir, so like www/docroot/ and www/docroot/foo
14:11 Pax but not for www/docroot/foo and www/docroot/bar
14:12 pdurbin should i see "dev" after an `svn up`? "branches" is empty #svnnoob
14:12 Pax by "dev" is trunk
14:12 Pax and I merge into tags/production
14:13 Pax so trunk/modules/unsg_apache
14:14 pdurbin r1328?
14:16 Pax yup
14:20 Pax I know I could create a totally separate definition to manage additional file, but it would be nice to be able to pass everything i need inside the Vhost definition of each Vhost
14:24 ironcamel did i hear someone say perl was ugly?
14:24 ironcamel SEJeff_work: http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/perl-dancer-for-python-programmers compare slide 11 to slide 12
14:24 ironcamel and tell me which you think is uglier
14:25 shuff oh dancer, you're so dreamy! <swoon>
14:25 SEJeff_work ironcamel, /me never was a huge fan of flask
14:25 ironcamel i like how python fanboys like to slam perl
14:25 ironcamel but when you compare actual code side by side
14:25 ironcamel that does the same thing
14:25 SEJeff_work I never slammed perl
14:26 ironcamel python doesn't look that great
14:26 SEJeff_work We were discussing forever backwards compat
14:26 pdurbin guys guys
14:26 SEJeff_work pdurbin said perl does it
14:26 SEJeff_work it doesn't :)
14:26 ironcamel perl does bend over backwards to keep compatibility, to a detrement, imo
14:27 SEJeff_work A noble goal truthfully
14:27 shuff oh, believe you me, if you're on an "enterprise" distribution it's not a detriment
14:27 agoddard https://twitter.com/#!/anthonygoddard/status/198214366624092161 < and pdurbin's inbox was finally ok again
14:27 ironcamel ruby for example will break shit to advance their language, which is good for the language
14:27 SEJeff_work but to a detrement
14:27 pdurbin SEJeff_work: i wanted to counter the "10 different ways" thing at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-05-04#i_5540044 with http://git.greptilian.com/?p=wellington.git;a=blob;f=t/perlcriticrc;hb=HEAD
14:27 shuff ironcamel: that's putting it mildly
14:27 Pax Hmmm hashes.. may I could use hashes and have the template just loop through em
14:27 SEJeff_work Oh thats nice
14:28 SEJeff_work pdurbin, But from someone who has done enough perl to be dangerous, I grew very weary of learning a new programming language (practically) every time I had to read someone else's perl who tried to be clever
14:28 SEJeff_work I don't hate perl, I don't love python.
14:28 Pax SEJeff_work I agree with the learning a new language for each new person!
14:28 SEJeff_work I use python as I can type code just about as fast as I can think of problems. It makes sense to the way my mind things, simply :)
14:28 SEJeff_work Exactly!
14:28 ironcamel SEJeff_work: i enjoy using a tool where i'm always learning new things about it, learning new ways to do the same thing
14:28 pdurbin if you include a perlcriticrc file in your test suite, you can enforce the way you like your code across the project. see also http://perlcritic.com
14:29 ironcamel SEJeff_work: i learned python in a week
14:29 ironcamel never learned anything new about it since then
14:29 SEJeff_work ironcamel, You've not learned python then :)
14:29 ironcamel similar to vim, i'm always learning new vim things
14:29 SEJeff_work I taught myself python (and perl) for work
14:29 SEJeff_work sure
14:29 ironcamel SEJeff_work: i have been getting paid for the last 6 or so years to write python
14:30 ironcamel there is not much to it
14:30 SEJeff_work pdurbin, Thats awesome, I was unaware of perlcritic. Like you said though, it is a cultural / philosophical thing. Python does a lot of that at the language level.
14:30 SEJeff_work nope
14:30 ironcamel SEJeff_work: python is a subset of perl
14:30 ironcamel lacking many language features
14:30 SEJeff_work I see them as different problems
14:30 SEJeff_work perl 5.x's OO is bolted on at best
14:30 SEJeff_work Perl has good OO
14:31 ironcamel SEJeff_work: perl has the most advanced OO system of any language
14:31 SEJeff_work meh, python
14:31 ironcamel perl OO = Moose
14:31 SEJeff_work Sure
14:31 SEJeff_work And C has gobject and the linux kernel has kobject
14:31 SEJeff_work But as part of the core language, OO is not amazing in perl.
14:32 ironcamel perl took the best OO ideas from java, python, smalltalk, etc and built Moose
14:32 SEJeff_work Perl was written for text processing. It excels at that. Python was written as a sort of glue language. It excels at that.
14:32 ironcamel glue language?
14:32 SEJeff_work I won't disagree with that
14:32 ironcamel it sucks at that!
14:32 SEJeff_work ha
14:32 ironcamel making system commands from python sucks
14:32 ironcamel os.command() is deprecated
14:33 SEJeff_work subprocess.Popen, but you knew that
14:33 ironcamel and all that popen crap sucks
14:33 ironcamel from an interface point of view
14:33 SEJeff_work I guess I see it as you should use the best tool for the job
14:33 ironcamel system "do some cool shit";
14:33 ironcamel vs
14:33 pdurbin yes, use the right tool for the job. i wrote https://github.com/fasrc/api/blob/master/modules in python because python has "batteries included", though i suppose ack-standalone (written in perl) has batteries included too. . . can just wget http://betterthangrep.com/ack-standalone . . .
14:34 SEJeff_work I can just about code in python as fast as I can think, so for me python is often the best tool for the job. When I was writing against the bluecat api (which is perl) perl was the best tool for the job
14:34 SEJeff_work ack is good stuff
14:34 ironcamel Popen ... omg, why the hell do i need to do all this crap
14:35 ironcamel SEJeff_work: but as a glue language, python is NOT the best tool, not even close
14:35 SEJeff_work It could be said that in perl 5.x, why do I need to use Moose to have OO that is good?
14:35 SEJeff_work I've never written a C module for perl
14:35 ironcamel SEJeff_work: that is fair
14:35 ironcamel a fair complaint
14:35 SEJeff_work Python's core language OO > Perl 5.x's core language OO
14:35 SEJeff_work that is what I was talking about
14:35 SEJeff_work Perl 6 looks pretty awesome
14:35 ironcamel but the perl philosophy is that CPAN is the language, and perl is the virtual machine
14:36 SEJeff_work Right
14:36 ironcamel SEJeff_work: one huge advantage that perl has is that it can evole via 3rd party modules
14:36 SEJeff_work And python has the standard lib, batteries (and warts) included
14:36 ironcamel so the language is advancing and evolving much faster than other languages
14:36 SEJeff_work How is that different than pypi or gem?
14:36 ironcamel like python on java, that require changes to their core to advance
14:36 SEJeff_work Huh?
14:37 SEJeff_work You mean jython?
14:37 ironcamel no
14:37 ironcamel jython?
14:37 SEJeff_work <ironcamel> like python on java, that require changes to their core to advance
14:37 SEJeff_work Sorry I don't follow
14:37 ironcamel SEJeff_work: https://metacpan.org/module/Test::Class::Sugar
14:37 ironcamel https://metacpan.org/module/MooseX::Declare
14:37 ironcamel look at that last link
14:37 ironcamel that module allows you to write OO
14:38 ironcamel just like java
14:38 SEJeff_work Honestly, you can write OO in any language just like you can write C in bash or python or perl
14:38 ironcamel this just can't happen via a python 3rd party module
14:38 shuff sell it a little harder, why don't you :)
14:38 SEJeff_work it doesn't really matter to me as much as it seems to matter to you :)
14:38 ironcamel what?
14:38 shuff i am familiar with MooseX::Declare
14:39 shuff but for me at least "just like java" is… not an inducement :)
14:39 SEJeff_work _at all_
14:39 ironcamel shuff: the point i am making is that you can't do the same thing in python
14:39 SEJeff_work No OO in python is also silly
14:39 shuff yes, yes
14:39 SEJeff_work private methods aren't private
14:39 SEJeff_work They just have underscores
14:39 ironcamel SEJeff_work: so there are things you don't like about python OO. too bad. you are stuck.
14:40 SEJeff_work Every language sucks, some suck less for specific tasks
14:40 ironcamel in perl, the community can improve it
14:40 ironcamel via 3rd party modules
14:40 SEJeff_work Which makes it look like a different language
14:40 ironcamel yes
14:40 SEJeff_work double edged sword
14:40 ironcamel as i said, the language is continually evolving
14:40 SEJeff_work I see it as neither good or bad
14:41 SEJeff_work Again, you're clearly a big fan. I do not hate perl, I just don't work in a place that it makes sense to use as my last 2 jobs have used python for anything non-perf critical
14:42 SEJeff_work And I actually kind of loathe flask
14:42 ironcamel SEJeff_work: flask is the closest you are going to get to a sinatra like dsl web framework
14:42 ironcamel SEJeff_work: because python sucks for creating dsl's
14:42 * SEJeff_work is not a fan of dsls
14:42 SEJeff_work I had a coworker that used to solve every problem with regex
14:43 ironcamel i notice that python users are not big fans of things that python can't do :)
14:43 SEJeff_work He was incredible with regex, but a bad sysadmin
14:43 ironcamel they are also not fans of functional programming
14:43 SEJeff_work You are incorrect
14:43 SEJeff_work I love erlang
14:43 SEJeff_work Please do not assume
14:43 ironcamel sorry :)
14:43 SEJeff_work assuming breeds arrogance and condescending. Lets keep this friendly and technical
14:43 SEJeff_work no worries
14:44 ironcamel lets keep it technical. python's lack of anonymous functions, lack of variable scope, and broken support for closures make it not suited for programming in the functional paradigm
14:45 SEJeff_work 100% agree
14:45 ironcamel \o/
14:45 SEJeff_work Guido is very stubborn and stupid at times
14:45 SEJeff_work The GIL
14:45 SEJeff_work I HATE python for some things because of the GIL
14:45 SEJeff_work anything that needs multicore or lots of concurrency. You can use a single threaded mainloop model, which will work around the problem, but that makes sad pandas
14:46 SEJeff_work So for that, python is not the best tool for the job.
14:46 ironcamel it is fine for networking type stuff
14:46 ironcamel where IO is the bottleneck
14:46 SEJeff_work And the multiprocessing module. Using multiprocessing.Pool for distributing work amongst different cpus (to work around the GIL) is gross
14:47 SEJeff_work I really hate that
14:48 Pax eureka!! I think using hashes totally solved it!! Oh, hashes how i love your key value pairs!
14:48 ironcamel SEJeff_work: i think if you took the time to actually LEARN perl, you may like it as much as python. everything you can do in python, you can do in perl.
14:48 ironcamel but the opposite is not true
14:49 SEJeff_work Python isn't really amazing at any 1 thing except for being simple and easy to understand / write. I spent 2 years working in perl and never adored it.
14:49 ironcamel it does take a MUCH larger time investment to actually LEARN perl though
14:49 SEJeff_work Although I do like Data::Dumper quite a bit more than pprint.pprint()
14:49 ironcamel it will payoff in the long run though, imo
14:49 ironcamel there is Data::Dump from CPAN, which i like better
14:49 ironcamel dd $foo
14:50 ironcamel is much easier to type than
14:50 ironcamel print Dumper($foo)
14:50 SEJeff_work ironcamel, Well a lot of the projects I work with and contribute to are all python. Again, best tool for the job. I learned python because most of my coworkers already knew / used it.
14:50 SEJeff_work If we had anyone here that did perl, I would have continued using perl instead of learning a new language. I'm a pragmatist
14:51 ironcamel i see
14:51 SEJeff_work I don't pretend to be an expert in either as that would be lies
14:51 SEJeff_work But I'm not stupid and know linux better than most
14:54 SEJeff_work ironcamel, question for you
14:56 SEJeff_work How come (it appears) that so much of the new open source code is not perl, or even perl 6, but ruby or python or $some_other_crack_like_javascript
14:58 ironcamel SEJeff_work: perl is not hip enough i guess
14:58 ironcamel why is there so much php out there
14:58 ironcamel because it is easy
14:58 SEJeff_work amen
14:58 shuff because PHP is the working man's language
14:58 ironcamel just like it was easier for you to pick up python and go with it
14:58 Pax ironcamel: why is it important that perl roxxors that much? who cares? Can't we all just get along :)
14:58 Pax I'll totally bring cookies!
14:59 SEJeff_work ironcamel, But you know there is something to be said about RAD. I'm more productive if I can prototype faster
14:59 ironcamel Pax: i am crazy about perl, sorry
15:00 ironcamel SEJeff_work: you could prototype just as fast in perl
15:00 ironcamel if you knew perl
15:00 ironcamel as well as whatever language you are referring to
15:00 SEJeff_work So because I know C I can prototype just as fast in C?
15:00 ironcamel no
15:00 SEJeff_work I actually disagree :)
15:00 ironcamel i assumed you meant php or python
15:01 ironcamel when you made a reference to RAD
15:01 SEJeff_work php is a weird language that loosely wraps C
15:01 SEJeff_work I can write perl faster than php. Perl *is* very consistent if you write it with discipline
15:02 SEJeff_work it also has great scoping (unlike python)
15:04 ironcamel my favorite quote from Larry Wall: "True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want."
15:04 ironcamel the inventor of Perl
15:04 SEJeff_work ironcamel, truthfully, I think this boils down to I was coerced into maintaining very very bad perl
15:04 SEJeff_work I know who larry wall is
15:04 ironcamel SEJeff_work: that is a common story
15:05 ironcamel seems to be the reason perl has a bad reputation in a lot of cases
15:05 SEJeff_work To play devil's advocate, you don't hear that often with python
15:05 ironcamel "i had to maintain shitty perl" ... <- now that person things perl is shitty
15:05 SEJeff_work Nah, just annoying
15:05 ironcamel s/things/thinks
15:06 SEJeff_work Some would say that not hearing that often in python is a feature of python as it is designed to be a subset
15:06 SEJeff_work as you said
15:07 ironcamel the flexiblity of perl that allows you to write such obfuscated code, also makes it possible to write code that looks much better, than other languages that are more coercive
15:07 SEJeff_work 100% agree
15:07 SEJeff_work Perl is incredibly concise
15:08 SEJeff_work but it isn't near as concise as K. If you've never had to write K you should thank the gods
15:09 ironcamel print "name: $name age: $age" is much nicer imo that print "name: " . "age: " . str(age)
15:09 ironcamel even nicer than the %s way
15:09 ironcamel i forgot a . name . in there
15:13 SEJeff_work ironcamel, python's moving towards: the '{name}'.format(name="foo") style
15:13 SEJeff_work which is a bit strange, but powerful
15:14 ironcamel a bit ugly, imo
15:15 SEJeff_work yes
15:15 SEJeff_work or you can use indexes instead of named arguments, but still ugly
15:15 ironcamel this conversation DID start with "perl is ugly"
15:15 ironcamel 08:41 < SEJeff_work> Absolutely. Perl lets you do things 10 different ways, which results in impressively ugly code often.
15:15 SEJeff_work I will stand by that :)
15:16 pdurbin i hope you guys are behaving yourselves. busy doing real work. will read later
15:16 ironcamel pdurbin: we are trying
15:16 SEJeff_work And I will for the record state that perl's _core language_ OO is not the most pleasant to deal with
15:16 SEJeff_work Although moose looks very nice
15:16 ironcamel SEJeff_work: did you know that perl's built in oo was copied from python?
15:17 SEJeff_work I would like to see the source of that statement
15:17 ironcamel SEJeff_work: one sec ...
15:17 SEJeff_work And python does things like private or protected methods wrong or not at all. Not the best OO impl to copy
15:18 SEJeff_work If you recall, I never said python was amazing zomg great. I said it is simple
15:18 SEJeff_work You can pick up someone else's code and run with it quickly. Doing that with perl, even for an advanced user, is not always as easy.
15:19 SEJeff_work https://github.com/languages Thats why I think you see perl at 4% on github, which is sad
15:20 ironcamel i think 4% on github is respectable
15:20 SEJeff_work It is, just sad that it isn't higher
15:21 ironcamel "I don't really know much about Python. I only stole its object system for Perl 5. I have since repented."
15:22 ironcamel -- Larry Wall
15:22 ironcamel http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html
15:22 ironcamel SEJeff_work: it IS as easy with perl, IF you know perl
15:22 ironcamel it is hard reading russian as well
15:22 ironcamel if you don't know russain
15:22 ironcamel *russian
15:23 SEJeff_work I have written perl
15:24 SEJeff_work Never anything > 400 or so LOC
15:24 SEJeff_work systems management scripts as you called them
15:24 shuff so, guys
15:24 pdurbin ironcamel, SEJeff_work: a little bird tells me you are NOT behaving yourselves. . .
15:24 shuff this discussion has grown extremely long
15:25 SEJeff_work ironcamel, Lets agree to disagree on perl is amazing vs all programming languages suck
15:25 shuff and has been repeatedly recapitulated elsewhere on the net :)
15:25 pdurbin how about you guys both write blog posts a la http://crimsonfu.github.com/2012/01/30/introducing-crimsonfu.html
15:25 SEJeff_work you being the former and me being the latter :)
15:27 ironcamel pdurbin: in what way are we not behaving?
15:27 SEJeff_work Probably just too much OT chatter
15:27 ironcamel OT?
15:27 SEJeff_work off topic, a common phrase used in IRC
15:28 ironcamel discussing merits of core sysops/dev tools is OT?
15:28 SEJeff_work I dunno, other people don't want to hear this convo so we can do it over PM to spare other the pain if you wish?
15:28 SEJeff_work s/other/&s/
15:28 ironcamel i want everyone to feel the pain :)
15:29 shuff ironcamel: c'mon, this argument is entirely circular
15:29 ironcamel shuff: it is not an argument
15:29 shuff there is no world in which you will convince any group of more than two geeks to all say "ok, this is the optimal <foo>"
15:29 ironcamel shuff: i was explaining how perl oo was copied from python
15:29 ironcamel as SEJeff_work asked about
15:30 shuff with minor digressions into CPAN culture, web frameworks, and suitability for functional programming :)
15:30 shuff perhaps we could move to vi vs. emacs or linux vs. bsd next?
15:30 ironcamel SEJeff_work: it was copied, but it is more raw and low level in perl than python
15:31 ironcamel SEJeff_work: which made it easier for people to build better OO systems on top of it. such as Moose.
15:31 ironcamel shuff: is CPAN culture and web frameworks OT for this channel?
15:32 pdurbin ironcamel: i don't know if you are misbehaving or not. i'm relying on shuff here. will read later to decide for myself :)
15:32 ironcamel pdurbin: please do
15:32 shuff i dunno about OT for this channel
15:33 pdurbin "On topic: ConfiguRatIon Management of Systems Or Network kung FU, Linux, scripting, automation, security, best practices" -- http://crimsonfu.github.com
15:33 pdurbin send in pull requests from http://github.com/crimsonfu/crimsonfu.github.com
15:33 shuff but nonstop discussion from 10:24 to 11:33 is a bit painful
15:33 ironcamel i think perl discussions fall under scripting
15:34 pdurbin help us define ourselves
15:34 pdurbin could even open an issue :) https://github.com/crimsonfu/crimsonfu.github.com/issues
15:34 ironcamel pdurbin: i am happy with the topic as is
15:35 ironcamel if i have a misinterpretation of it
15:35 ironcamel please let me know
15:35 ironcamel i didn't know there was a time limit per discussion
15:36 ironcamel i was enjoying the discussion with SEJeff_work. i think shuff could use an attitude check though.
15:38 pdurbin shuff's a good guy
15:39 pdurbin i have a vm to build, but i'll read all this later
15:43 pdurbin we should all do a google hangout some day
19:03 pdurbin chatty chatty!
19:04 pdurbin ironcamel, SEJeff_work: great discussion. keep up the good work
19:04 pdurbin shuff: relax :)
19:05 shuff ok, ok, you're right
19:05 shuff have a good weekend, all!
19:06 ironcamel pdurbin: thanks
19:06 ironcamel hope shuff is not mad
19:06 pdurbin ironcamel: he's not. we had lunch
19:07 pdurbin everyone should meet shuff. you'll love him
19:07 ironcamel i'm sure
19:07 ironcamel that was not sarcasm, just to make clear :)
19:07 pdurbin yep yep
19:08 pdurbin and look he knows how to relax: http://search.cpan.org/~shuff
19:08 pdurbin he has a hammock
19:08 ironcamel oh wow
19:08 ironcamel shuff++
19:09 ironcamel a fellow CPAN'er
19:09 * pdurbin wonders if shuff has re-implemented how he used to monitor jabber for mentions of his name in irc and get an sms or what have you
19:12 pdurbin ironcamel: you kind of made the same rant to me the other day. i'm glad it's linkable now :)
19:13 SEJeff_work pdurbin, :)
19:14 SEJeff_work I try to surround myself with people as smart or smarter than me
19:14 SEJeff_work and smart is interchangable with skilled. ironcamel and you both taught me something new today. So it has been a good day
19:14 pdurbin +1
19:16 pdurbin so far i've been happy enough with python
19:16 ironcamel thanks SEJeff_work
19:16 SEJeff_work Both are good enough, but when I left an all perl shop 4 years ago, I learned python
19:41 pdurbin i just left an all perl shop
19:41 * pdurbin waves at shuff and whorka
19:41 pdurbin and here we use everything :)
19:42 pdurbin this annoys me a bit: "New in version 2.3. . . Deprecated since version 2.7" -- http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html
19:42 * whorka waves back at pdurbin
19:42 whorka today I tried Perl::Critic. thanks!
19:43 pdurbin whorka: you can add Perl::Critic to perlNazi! :)
19:44 whorka I am slowly removing the obscene variables and filenames from our infrastructure. but I like the idea.
19:44 pdurbin does the perl code still refer to the death of another language which shall not be named?
19:45 whorka oh, that I'll keep. ;)
19:45 pdurbin i look forward to when you open source it :)
19:47 whorka speak of which, anyone here know where in github I submit patches to rpmforge packages?
19:48 pdurbin whorka: please see "How can I contribute?" at http://repoforge.org/faq/
19:49 whorka gotcha
19:50 pdurbin so regarding optparse vs. argparse, if there should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it in python, it would be nice if it wouldn't change :)
19:51 SEJeff_work pdurbin, Completely agree
19:51 SEJeff_work Luckily it is very easy to go between the two
19:52 pdurbin oh good. i didn't even look at argparse as i'm targeting whatever python is stock on the latest release of RHEL
19:55 pdurbin and i think i just convinced one of our django guys to do the same :)
19:55 SEJeff_work Yes that is good advice
19:56 SEJeff_work As they are all python and so similar, you can install argparse in older python
19:56 SEJeff_work Just like you can get the subprocess module for older python. I do agree that it is annoying to use just like ironcamel lamented however.
19:56 pdurbin hmm. and it works? is it in core RHEL?
19:57 SEJeff_work If not, it would be in epel
19:57 pdurbin gotcha
20:04 * pdurbin runs `svn up`. Pax must have fixed his issue somewhere between 1328 and 1331
20:07 SEJeff_work Do you work with Pax?
20:08 pdurbin sort of. i met Pax and rhce training
20:08 pdurbin turns out he works at harvard too
20:09 pdurbin Pax: maybe you should change your page on http://crimsonfu.github.com/members to Pax. . .
20:10 pdurbin incidentally, the username you choose is meaningful: https://github.com/crimsonfu/crimsonfu.github.com/blob/master/_config.yml#L5 for blog posts anyway
20:12 pdurbin SEJeff_work: i just made you an owner. no pull request needed anymore. please make a member page if you are so inclined
20:12 SEJeff_work max makes me think of grsecurity
20:12 SEJeff_work Pax, cooincidence?
20:12 SEJeff_work pdurbin, word
20:44 pdurbin Pax: i just committed a query-the-xmlrc-interface of cobbler script: https://github.com/crimsonfu/code/blob/master/cobbler.pl i *think* this is along the lines of what you were looking for yesterday: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-05-03#i_5535846
20:45 Pax hey very cool!
20:47 pdurbin myserver1 CentOS-6.0-x86_64-vm eth0: ip: 10.10.1.1 mac: 00:16:3e:6b:ca:2d bridge: br123 virt_file_size: <<inherit>>
20:47 pdurbin output should be something like that
20:48 pdurbin code could be better, of course
20:48 pdurbin but hey, at least now we have a code repo
20:48 pdurbin so let's see some more code :)
20:52 SEJeff_work pdurbin, Here is one for you I wrote awhile ago
20:52 SEJeff_work http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/scripts/nhs
20:54 SEJeff_work Nothing fancy, just a quick and dirty python script to get hosts out of cobbler
20:54 pdurbin actually, come to think of it, the same code (basically) is wellington: http://git.greptilian.com/?p=wellington.git;a=blob;f=lib/Wellington.pm;h=2e4734239ba23244626697531357ee4198e62315;hb=HEAD#l39