On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:22:33 +0200, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabor
Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can someone explain me why is the source code of learn.perl.org (and
the other *.perl.org site) not publicly accessible?
Sure it's acessible. That's how you get to see it. When you view the
site. you're downloading the source.
Is this supposed to be funny? You know what they ment.
Looks like you are realy pissed on Shlomi Fish ... While without looking
at the archives I can't get whole picture - with what I've seen so far
(ussual way life works - isn't it) you seem to be the bad guy.
I'll leave any other comment untill after I checked the archives - and
will try to be constructive now.
The whole point is that site (learn.perl.org) get's lot of visitors (I
hope so) since it's linked from many places - but all that is wasted since
site content isn't maintained. At least it looks like that to me (and
others it seems).
Since I was most likely beginner more recently than you folks (started
learning Perl some 3 - 4 years ago) I think my counts more than yours. The
learn.perl.org website is not a very good site for a beginner. While it
gives some very good references, beginners need more hand-holding sort to
say.
I still haven't found a single site that was realy good for beginners.
Best thing I found was Perl forum on DevShed - but you can't count that.
It is folish to expect from a beginner to read perldoc or similar. I tried
that - and it didn't had much sence to me untill I learned at least some
Perl basics. Only after that it started making sence.
Exception to that is the tutorials section that seems to be underexposed
as I haven't discovered it at first.
My view of a site for Perl is one that:
- would look good in means of Web 2.0 style - minimal but eyecatching
design (python.org),
- advocate Perl (again python.org - right hand column you see "NASA uses
python" ...)
- have content same/similar as perldoc tutorials - but only much more of
it, that would cover everything from introduction to programming (using
Perl of course) to bag-of-tricks from professionals.
- would accept content submisions from people not directly involved with
the site - with of course some sort of administration before it's published
I see no reason why such a site couldn't integrate with Perl's
documentation so that effort put in it could be recycled.
Best regards,
--
Aleksandar Petrović
