Thomas Fahle’s article on App::perlbrew

I seriously find Thomas Fahle’s article on his own blog (see the blog imprint!) on App::perlbrew a rather good piece of work.

I always appreciate, if authors have an extensive literature list, by which they show, from where they know, what they know.

I also find it rather interesting, that Thomas mentions, how important it is to use “hash -r“, and I searched the articles, he mentioned in his literature list, but it wasn’t mentioned there.

To be honest with you, I assumed I wouldn’t find an article, where that is mentioned beforehand.

I can actually refer you to an article, where it got mentioned on 2010-07-02:

App::perlbrew – Manage perl installations in your $HOME or wherever you want

That article certainly showed up on ironman.enlightenedperl.org.

Of course I can’t tell you, whether Thomas Fahle had read that article at all, and he just forget or missed to add it at the end of his literature list, and whether his advice comes out of his own professional expertise. But I just thought, I wouldn’t easily let him easily get away with this bad attitude of his.

But you now have at least two articles, where you find this good advice – so don’t you forget it!

Nota bene:
I do know for sure though, that Thomas Fahle doesn’t really like the style of »the author« of that other article. You’re not suggesting I should add a comment on Thomas Fahle’s blog, telling him he might have missed an article in his literature list, are you? You might actually do so, if you think that’s a good idea.

Getting carried away a little – leaving perl grounds…

Another nota bene:
I also do happen to know, that »the author« of that other article has made a similar experience back in the early 1990s: he had had a rather cheeky colleague then, calling himself a Ph.D. (gained in the U.S.S.R.). »That author« had used Finite State Machines within their company for the implementation of GUIs, not really making a secret of that. You are certainly right in that Finite State Machines are not rocket science, Finite State Machines for GUIs aren’t rocket science either, but you will probably not be able to create a long literature list for Finite State Machines for GUIs. That’s the issue.
All of a sudden then that U.S.S.R. Ph.D. mentioned Finite State Machines to their management and to their company board – and without giving any proper respect to »that author«. The name of that U.S.S.R. Ph.D. is Martin Hartwig. As usual within the GDR system than he was a very proper and very long-term member of the GDR communist party. Actually as proper, that he was able to organize a visit permit for a Western visitor to rather sacred places of the GDR research system. So presumably he wasn’t quite an ordinary member of the communist party then. You shouldn’t consider the GDR communist party as just a colorful shiver of younger European history, which didn’t create too much harm to the GDR population. O, no! The GDR communist party did actually create a lot of harm then. But we don’t want to go into detail on that here. Martin Hartwig always wanted to appear as a solid and trustworthy member of society. We doubt he is. A big “thank you!” to Thomas Fahle for giving us the opportunity to create this little shock to both these guys. It’s all about bad attitudes.

Strange memories appearing at strange times. Together with more experiences of the bad kind they did cause nightmares and long lasting harsh difficulties once. And in the end they destroyed a family, and a boy grew up without a close father.

Pls excuse this author for getting carried away at times, but I guess you sort of enjoy it occasionally.

Update / 2010-07-26:
A furious commentator confused members of the GDR communist party with Russian spies. I’m not sure, whether that’s just because of a low IQ (but then low IQ guys don’t follow the ironman blog or this one) or is that out of lack of basic political education?