Re: Porting POE to Moose

None, any, or all of this may be true.

But I got laid this week.

And built three new POE engines. It was really easy because I'm smart.

- billn

On Apr 27, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Evan Carroll wrote:

> Dear POE,
>
> I'm sick of pulling my hair out because of your 1989 coding practice.
> I've begun packing your bags to send you to Moose-landville. My goal
> is to totally deprive you of blessed arrays, and closures in new. I
> personal yearn for the day when you lack the confusing nonsense that
> gives you your identity. The problem is other modules don't look like
> you for a reason -- you're ugly.
>
> You're actually worse than ugly, you're hideous. You're the ugly
> bastard brother of the ugly duck. While you aver that smaller, more
> modular functions are better for an event driven systems, at your core
> you're black with deception. You have the longest most ugly and hard
> to follow monolithic logic ever. But, wait I think I'm playing this
> down... See, you're more than just one type of ugly: you've actually
> got all the unique colors of ugly; but, unlike a rainbow they're are
> in no predictable order. That's right, your capriciously ugly.
>
> Above and beyond blessed arrays, why for the love of god do you feel
> the need to strive for object-orientation through "components." What
> is a component anyway?!? Why can't I just go my POE->new( kernel_args
> )->wheel( wheel_args )->add_to_wheel( new_event ). Why do I have to
> read to just figure out your obscure coding methodology? Why can't you
> just be like everyone else. How do your individual components talk to
> each other, why is it so hard to figure out what your doing when you
> fail to do what I want? You act like Perl's objects are an unfit for
> life, but in the end my code just looks like a soup of disassociated
> components that sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Why is it so hard
> to publish a module that attaches to the POE Kernel if it is there,
> and if it isn't operates in a sane fashion...
>
> Join me in slaying the dragon:
>  http://github.com/EvanCarroll/MooseyPoopoe/
>  (All of the POE::Kernel::Filters are migrated and running under the
> test suite)
>
> -- 
> Evan Carroll
> System Lord of the Internets