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<title><![CDATA[Hackathon Chicago, Nov 10-12, 2006: ack]]></title>
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Leader: <a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/hackathon-chicago/index.cgi?andy_lester" title="(70 months)  image andy-moose.jpg One of the two organizers of this little shindig, and proud member of Chicago ...">Andy Lester</a><br />
Curious: <a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/hackathon-chicago/index.cgi?michael_r_wolf" title="(70 months) I learned Perl in a day, solved a problem the following day, and have been using and mastering it ev...">Michael R. Wolf</a></p>
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ack is a Perl-based replacement for grep aimed at large codebases. It's getting popular outside of the Perl world. See the project page at <a target="_blank" title="(external link)" href="http://code.google.com/p/ack/">http://code.google.com/p/ack/</a> for more information.</p>
<h1 id="stuff_to_work_on">Stuff to work on</h1>
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<li>Allow ack to be installed as a single executable by inlining File::Next at build time.</li>
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<li>Improve the docs</li>
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<li>Create a homepage for it</li>
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<li>Add extensible extensions</li>
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<li>Show context in the results</li>
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<li>Clean up whatever tickets are in the RT queue</li>
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