Perl development history in less then 4 minutes

[psp12345678998765432]

Gotta love gource.

[gnamp]

like ants on an orange

[clifferny1]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, it is mesmerizing.

I keep watching it over and over again, very very nice.

I tried to pause it and following it and ... and ... at 0:39 02/07/1997, well forget it, way too many people.

There is no question, great project, great Language, great community.

[fce2]

What options did you give to gource? Trying to do something similar with a private source tree of similar size and history, but the best I can do produces a 45 minute video!

[gugod]

@fce2 Sorry I didn't keep the command to make this specific video. But a trick I use is to set the fps to 15 and then use ffmpeg to re-encode it as a 30 fps video, which cut the time in half.

There are various grouce options that makes it skip dates without commits, or make it time-based instead of commit-based.

[wwwpwndcom]

Gotta love all the kids coming on here not knowing what the fuck it is and still bothering to thumbs down and comment. Seriously people. Youtube isn't just for mindless idiots like yourselves.

[chess19]

@wwwpwndcom Yeah, cause I hate when people enjoy things for the wrong reasons.

[colin8696908]

i don't get it

[tapp3r]

This is probably quite amazing for people who know this and care for it. Personally I don't know anything about programming, except for the fact that I know that this is programming. lol. Obviously what we see is people, developers and programmers practically developing something called "perl". The tiny MSN-characters are the developers and programmers, each one of them are doing something specific. I suppose they're making some sort of program.

It's not science.

[Downfromzero]

@tapp3r close. they're developing the actual interpreter and language. In essence everything that is Perl. Judging by the first date in the video (3-26-1989) this is from Perl 3 and onward to (2-22-2010). Which I'm guessing is both adapting Perl 5 and probably working on the yet to be released, Perl 6. --- As you said it's all the developers/programmers that have probably committed changes to the Perl source.

[Johannady]

what is Perl? o3o

[Tony3821]

@Johannady

A programming language.

[TheTrillz]

What the heck am I looking at here? I know I'm partly retarded by what is "Perl Development"?

[s1e]

Interesting solo in 1996 :-D

[dfherrero]

man this video alone must've taken a long time to make

[hapolian]

what program was used to make this?

[Termial007]

ok...  dont get it

[benifyfully]

"Perl development history in less then 4 minutes" <- spot the mistake!

[AlexDH92]

@benifyfully 'then' should be 'than'! Do I get a prize? :D

[whighamz]

wat

[smsmithfield]

It needs one of those guys that call auctions, calling the changes.

[matelotgeek]

it's a fucking virus !!!!

[mattkleifgen]

So is the single blue developer for a while Larry Wall?

[Downfromzero]

@mattkleifgen You can see Larry Wall in the very beginning. If you really want to trace this, you're gonna have to get good at pausing.

[dbabbitt]

It needs no techno music: it needs a couple of sports commentators giving a blow-by-blow account and some color on the players. You would probably have to slow it down a little.

[toddrin]

It needs techno music to go along with the commits