Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-26 Thread Graham Barr
On Nov 24, 2012, at 22:43 , David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:25:33PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Guinevere Nell guinevere.n...@gmail.com: On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Uri == Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com writes: Uri TAP is used everywhere now. perl invented and spread it so it is universal in Uri the perl world. Uri cpan is always being copied (poorly) by other langs. they just never get the Uri community feeling of uploading to cpan as a cred and for

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread Abigail
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 07:36:23PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: this thread reminds me of something we need to crow about more. so many conventions, inventions, ideas have come from the perl community and then be copied/stolen/absorbed by other langs, usually without much recognition. the

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread Bob Walker
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, James Laver wrote: On 24 Nov 2012, at 00:36, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: TAP is used everywhere now. perl invented and spread it so it is universal in the perl world. TAP can be used certainly, but most languages have their own testing infrastructure. Most

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:16:04PM +, Guinevere Nell wrote: I was looking for Cogent (David Hand)'s module that allowed you to write Perl in Latin in Klingon that parsed Javascript, I think? But all I found was Conway's

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 01:19:22PM +0100, Abigail wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:09:36PM +, Guinevere Nell wrote: On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's accumulating wonderful --

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:25:33PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Guinevere Nell guinevere.n...@gmail.com: On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 11/23/2012 02:43 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Live Perl Golf Apocalypse 2000 at TPC 4, aka uri's triumph. wow. that was a painful event. saved by damian's fill in talk and forgiven by gnat. it was a team failure, so i

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/23/2012 02:43 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Live Perl Golf Apocalypse 2000 at TPC 4, aka uri's triumph. wow. that was a painful event. saved by damian's fill in talk and forgiven by gnat. it was a team failure, so i can't take all the credit. iirc nfs didn't work well on the donated boxes

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/23/2012 02:43 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Damian's Coy module 1999 and subsequent explosion of interest in haiku. one of my favorite damian stories is about his talk on coy.pm. this was early damian and tpc didn't schedule him more time or a large enough room. he was given back to back

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Adrian Howard
/lurk Annoyingly I'm not going to be able to go to LPW tomorrow now (post-op dog needs looking after rather more than was anticipated) but one thing that's not been mentioned is the evolution of the Perl testing framework. Test.pm pre-dates Beck's seminal SUnit, and Perl folk caught the testing

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Guinevere Nell
I was looking for Cogent (David Hand)'s module that allowed you to write Perl in Latin in Klingon that parsed Javascript, I think? But all I found was Conway's Latinhttp://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50/lib/Lingua/Romana/Perligata.pm

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: And some history on what happened, http://computer-programming-forum.com/53-perl/94afef039a9112e6.htm Wow, forum posts from 1902.

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
this thread reminds me of something we need to crow about more. so many conventions, inventions, ideas have come from the perl community and then be copied/stolen/absorbed by other langs, usually without much recognition. the most obvious is regexes with the pcre package everyone seems to use

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread James Laver
On 24 Nov 2012, at 00:36, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: this thread reminds me of something we need to crow about more. so many conventions, inventions, ideas have come from the perl community and then be copied/stolen/absorbed by other langs, usually without much recognition. We

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/23/2012 08:30 PM, James Laver wrote: On 24 Nov 2012, at 00:36, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: yapc has yet to be properly copied. no one else delivers more bang for the buck and fun as well. mjd invented lightning talks and they are at many confs now, not just lang ones.

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
I'd agree with you on python but I can say the Ruby community is packed full of nutballs and is very entertaining. Probably not too surprising considering ruby's perlish origins. So perhaps chalk that up to perl too ;) Written on my phone On Nov 23, 2012 6:57 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Andrew Savige
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl Twenty five years is a long time, so inevitably some Perl hackers have passed away during that period:  Iain Truskett (aka Spoon/Koschei)  Nick Ing-Simmons  Dr Randy

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Matt Freake
1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Has the CPAN shell always been there? Discovering that made me life a lot easier and

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Matt Freake matthew.d.fre...@gmail.com: 1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Has the CPAN shell always been there?

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Guinevere Nell
On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the heart of most development ... on the irc topic, will you be mentioning purl? I

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Abigail
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:09:36PM +, Guinevere Nell wrote: On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the heart of

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Guinevere Nell guinevere.n...@gmail.com: On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the heart of most development

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread James Laver
On 22 Nov 2012, at 12:19, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: A community thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: conference auctions. (Isn't London.pm still suffering from the outcome of an auction in 2001?) I consider it an interesting quirk. Interestingly the PHP and python meetups in london

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/22/2012 07:19 AM, Abigail wrote: I do remember Kevin giving us a tour of CMU, which included the location of the box that was running purl. This was during one of the first YAPCs, so indeed no later than 19100. A community thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: conference auctions. (Isn't

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Abigail
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: the first yapc in pitt/cmu run by lenzo was in the red. during the banquet we passed around a (real) hat). we collected over $2k to cover the shortage. Actually, the collection was during Kevins closing remarks. The $2k was

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/22/2012 12:17 PM, Abigail wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: the first yapc in pitt/cmu run by lenzo was in the red. during the banquet we passed around a (real) hat). we collected over $2k to cover the shortage. Actually, the collection was during

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Sam Kington
On 20 Nov 2012, at 16:09, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: [regarding matt's scripts] If anyone is unaware of the London Perl Mongers' reaction to Matt's scripts, you should probably read http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html Some mention should be made also of the attempt to rewrite the

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Sam Kington s...@illuminated.co.uk wrote: Some mention should be made also of the attempt to rewrite the entire Unix support structure in Perl - things like ls, find, head etc. I don't think this ever went very far, and it appears to be very difficult to Google

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Andrew Savige
Though there doubtless isn't time for a deatiled history of the lighter side of Perl culture, for completeness, in addition to Acme modules, we have: JAPH, Obfu, Golf, Poetry, April Fools. Some highlights: JAPH: First JAPH by merlyn 1988, followed later by trickier ones. Abigail's later

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:46:30AM +, Dave Cross wrote: Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. I'm thinking Kevin Lenzo would have a good idea. Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up? I'm

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Abigail wrote: I started using Perl in 1995, when the main focus on the community was on Usenet. At that time, it was just comp.lang.perl; the split into multiple groups was either late 1995, or early 1996. I first joined a Perl IRC channel in 1997,

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Peter Sergeant
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up? EFnet #perl was the 'original' Perl IRC channel -

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Abigail
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:50:34AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Abigail wrote: I started using Perl in 1995, when the main focus on the community was on Usenet. At that time, it was just comp.lang.perl; the split into multiple groups was either

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Peter Sergeant p...@clueball.com: Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago! http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html Similar photo from YAPC 2000 in London http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmccarroll/49476450/ DAve...

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:15:44AM +, Peter Sergeant wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. Oh, and when was

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:36:57AM +, Dave Cross wrote: Similar photo from YAPC 2000 in London http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmccarroll/49476450/ I was looking at this and going wait, I know I was there... Then I realized I still had some hair then... :-/ dha -- David H. Adler -

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:31:48AM +0100, Abigail wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:50:34AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Abigail wrote: I started using Perl in 1995, when the main focus on the community was on Usenet. At that time, it was just

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 21/11/12 09:45, David H. Adler wrote: Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago! http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html And here's one from 8 years ago. http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG It is important and/or enlightening to wonder why most of you

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:40:26AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 21/11/12 09:45, David H. Adler wrote: And here's one from 8 years ago. http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG It is important and/or enlightening to wonder why most of you are wearing pixie style tinfoil hats? Are the points

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 21/11/12 11:47, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:40:26AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 21/11/12 09:45, David H. Adler wrote: And here's one from 8 years ago. http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG It is important and/or enlightening to wonder why most of you are

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:55:43AM +, Dave Cross wrote: Conferences that need mentioning: TPC, German Perl Workshop (first Perl conference outside of TPC), YAPC, OSCON. And, considering where you're going to give the presentation: LPW. 2000 may be an interesting year: at YAPC::NA 19100,

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Mallory van Achterberg
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:09:32PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Simon Dick sim...@irrelevant.org: On 20 November 2012 15:45, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: [ snip ] in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Jacqui Caren
On 19/11/2012 17:29, Dave Cross wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? I know Tim will not blow his own trumpet but ... One of the

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Matt Freake
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Templating modules (embperl,

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com: 1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? I'd be sure to mention the strong role Perl

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting David H. Adler d...@panix.com: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com: On 19/11/2012 17:29, Dave Cross wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? I know Tim

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Matt Freake matthew.d.fre...@gmail.com: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Abigail
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss anything important

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Jasper
November 2012 10:27, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover. But I wanted

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Aaron Crane
Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Quoting Chris Benson chr...@ccandc.org: Back before there were modules: the earliest version I used (3.something) came with *2p utilities that were useful in their own right and enabled bootstrapping knowledge from find, sed and especially in my case awk:

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Abigail abig...@abigail.be: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure that I

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Matt Freake
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Yeah. Got TT and Mason on my list. Was Embperl ever really important. I know I have a strong aversion to it (and I think you might also have the same aversion - engendered by the same project). That project was the only one

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Savige
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl Great idea. An amusing anecdote from the very early days that illustrates how Perl attracted some of its early users is that merlyn relentlessly answered requests

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread James Laver
On 20 Nov 2012, at 09:09, Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote: I know Tim will not blow his own trumpet but ... One of the biggies was and is DBI. We take it so much for granted that you could connect to any number of different database engines with the same perl binary these days,

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Andrew Savige ajsav...@yahoo.com.au: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl Great idea. An amusing anecdote from the very early days that illustrates how Perl attracted some of its early users

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:09:34PM +, James Laver wrote: We take it so much for granted that you could connect to any number of different database engines with the same perl binary these days, or with any other programming language too, but really perl led the world here. This was

RE: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread abhishek jain
Was Embperl ever really important. I know I have a strong aversion to it (and I think you might also have the same aversion - engendered by the same project). That project was the only one where I used a proper templating system, so I felt obliged to mention it :-) I did struggle to

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting David H. Adler d...@panix.com: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: 2/ Community What community initiatives should I cover? Can I mention TPI without giving some people nightmares? How much detail can I cover about Perl Mongers? Which conferences deserve a

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Andrew == Andrew Savige ajsav...@yahoo.com.au writes: Andrew An amusing anecdote from the very early days that illustrates how Andrew Perl attracted some of its early users is that merlyn relentlessly Andrew answered requests for Unix sed, awk, and shell help with snippets Andrew of *Perl* code.

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Abigail
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:10:42AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Andrew == Andrew Savige ajsav...@yahoo.com.au writes: Andrew An amusing anecdote from the very early days that illustrates how Andrew Perl attracted some of its early users is that merlyn relentlessly Andrew answered

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some actually learned perl. Yes. I'm well aware of the effects of Matt's scripts. In fact I think I may have

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Simon Dick sim...@irrelevant.org: On 20 November 2012 15:45, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: [ snip ] in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some actually learned perl.

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Salve J Nilsen
Dave Cross said: What parts of Perl's history do you think are important. I'm particularly interested in two areas. 1/ Technical 2/ Community FWIW, I think the decision to start with time-based releases of Perl5 was a good one, and probably worth mentioning. Not sure if that should be

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some actually learned perl. Yes. I'm well aware of the effects of

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Abigail
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some actually learned perl.

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Matt Freake matthew.d.fre...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Yeah. Got TT and Mason on my list. Was Embperl ever really important. I know I have a strong aversion to it (and I think you might also have the same aversion - engendered by

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Corlett
On 20 Nov 2012, at 13:37, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: [...] That davorg chap is awesome :-) We've all known this for years, but didn't want to flatter your ego too much by saying so :)

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread B Maqueira
Not sure if they would fit on the same league of DBI and TT, but to me LWP and WWW::Mechanize are also true PERL gems. On 19/11/2012 17:29, Dave Cross wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 20 Nov 2012, at 16:30, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first 'P' in PHP once stood for perl?

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first 'P' in PHP once stood for perl? I thought, for the longest time, that PHP had originally been

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/20/2012 04:17 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote: On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first 'P' in PHP once stood for perl? I thought, for the

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Kieren Diment
On 21/11/2012, at 8:17 AM, Randy J. Ray wrote: On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first 'P' in PHP once stood for perl? I

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Kieren Diment
On 21/11/2012, at 8:29 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: On 11/20/2012 04:17 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote: On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 20/11/12 21:17, Randy J. Ray wrote: On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first 'P' in PHP once stood for perl? I thought, for the

25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Dave Cross
At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss anything important. So I thought I'd turn to the london.pm hivemind. What parts

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Randy J. Ray
1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? I'd be sure to mention the strong role Perl played in the emergence of CGI applications--

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: 1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Back before there were

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Chris == Chris Benson chr...@ccandc.org writes: Chris I think the early days of comp.lang.perl (before the split) with informed, Chris entertaining helpful commentary from some of stalwarts was also key Chris in the rise of Perl. I believe there was also a perl mailing list before that. --

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover. But I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss anything important

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:12 PM, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: If memory serves, YAS didn't become TPF. They were separate entities, as was Perl Mongers. At a certain point, Kevin decided he didn't want to run YAS anymore and brian decided not to run Perl Mongers anymore TPF also

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Dave Cross
On 11/20/2012 04:57 AM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:12 PM, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: If memory serves, YAS didn't become TPF. They were separate entities, as was Perl Mongers. At a certain point, Kevin decided he didn't want to run YAS anymore and

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Abigail
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:12:46PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled 25 Years of Perl. I have the structure of the talk, and I have worked out most of the things that I want to cover