Revision history for Perl extension Text::GenderFromName.
0.33 Tue Apr 20 15:07:51 CDT 2010
# Wow. People still use this! Fixed Makefile.PL to allow automated # smoke tests.
0.30 Wed Jul 30 14:56:32 CDT 2003
# Version 0.30 is a significant departure from previous versions. By
# default, version 0.30 uses the U.S. Social Security Administration's
# "Most Popular Names of the 1980's" list of 1001 male first names and
# 1013 female first names. See CAVEATS in the pod documentation for
# details on this list.
#
# Version 0.30 also allows for arbitrary female and male hashed lists
# to be provided at run-time, and includes several built-ins to
# provide matches based on exclusivity, weight, metaphones, and both
# version 0.20 and version 0.10 regexp-style matching. The user can
# also specify additional match subroutines and change the match order
# at run-time.
0.2 Fri Oct 26 18:01:18 2001
-X -n Text::GenderFromName # Version 0.2. Module list status is "Rdpf." # # Two big changes between this and version 0.1: # # First, the gender() subroutine now returns "m" if none of the rules # trigger, instead of "undef". This isn't meant to be sexist, but merely # to reflect that the original rules were organized such that male names # were meant to "fall through" to the end. # # Second, I've appended a big list of names that gets searched first. # This is counter to the spirit of the original code -- the whole point # was that it used heuristics to guess at the gender rather than a # huge list of names. But enough people have requested this that I # decided to add in the huge list, disk space be darned.