Re: The Future - grim.

2000-09-11 Thread Dave Storrs
Well, THAT was certainly specific, insightful, politely phrased, and filled with pertinent advice on how to remedy the problem! Alan, you're right about certain things...it's important that talented, experienced people have the final say over the final product. However, most of the problems in

RE: Continued RFC process

2000-10-10 Thread Dave Storrs
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: Closed-for-posting mailing lists that are publically readable is the best suggestion we've had to meet these ends so far. Anyone have better suggestions? I don't know that this is _better_, but...perhaps we could have the lists that

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-06 Thread Dave Storrs
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Fink wrote: David Grove wrote: Also, as far as documentation goes, I think it _should_ be written by apprentices, so that non-masters can understand it too. That's always been Except it's a particular duty that nobody really likes to perform. Which

RE: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-16 Thread Dave Storrs
by using such inflammatory language...it makes me (and probably others) focus more on your tone than on your point. Dave Storrs

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-16 Thread Dave Storrs
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: Dave Storrs writes: SARCASM=EXTREME Everyone, please try to stop the downhill descent of the conversation. This is not just Dave, but others in the thread too. For the record, the original post in this sequence came from David

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Storrs
Hmmm...ok, on thinking about it, I generally agree with you. There is only one point that I would debate (and, as you'll see, there's a solution for that one, too): On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: Dave Storrs writes: 1) One of the great strengths of Perl