Re: Perl XS Beginners

2013-12-14 Thread David Mertens
, I would be able to stay on top of important queries, like XS, or PDL. David On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:20 PM, bulk 88 bul...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:47:17 +0100 From: p...@pjcj.net To: wolfs...@gmail.com CC: perl-xs@perl.org Subject: Re: Perl XS Beginners

Re: Perl XS Beginners

2013-12-14 Thread Calle Dybedahl
Matthew == Matthew Horsfall (alh) wolfs...@gmail.com writes: I mean start using it and broadcasting it for XS beginners and up to ask questions, share knowledge, etc. Earlier this fall I got a reason to start learning XS (in order to write the module Net::LDNS, now on CPAN). Since I found the

Re: Perl XS Beginners

2013-12-13 Thread David Oswald
We all learn more by being challenged by the questions generated as newcomers climb the learning curve. On Dec 13, 2013 8:25 AM, Matthew Horsfall (alh) wolfs...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to garner some interest in a Perl XS beginner/intermediate group/community. I was wondering if

Re: Perl XS Beginners

2013-12-13 Thread Matthew Horsfall (alh)
Awesome, thank you everyone. So far it seems like no one has a problem with this, I'm going to operate under this assumption. I just hope this list is friendly and patient. If you feel like getting more involved, we're congregating in #xs on irc.perl.org. This is all just starting to take off,

Re: Perl XS Beginners

2013-12-13 Thread Matthew Horsfall (alh)
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Mike Flannigan mikef...@att.net wrote: I for one had to look up what XS is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XS_%28Perl%29 It is a an interface through which a program written in the Perl programming language can call a C or C++ language subroutine. I don't

RE: Perl XS Beginners

2013-12-13 Thread bulk 88
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:47:17 +0100 From: p...@pjcj.net To: wolfs...@gmail.com CC: perl-xs@perl.org Subject: Re: Perl XS Beginners Counting your message, I see six messages on this list in the last six months, and 20 in the last year. The list description