On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Tor Hildrum wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:10:48 -0800 (PST), Harbhajan Julka > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > Need some pointers to perl projects that use all the > > major functionalities of perl. Please pass your ideas > > as soon as you can. I've been working on perl in > > theory and tried some small programs to practice, but > > need something bigger that would help understand perl > > and learn it too. > > Write a spam-filter. When we've already got SpamAssassin, what's the point? SA may not be the perfect spam filter, but it's a pretty good attempt.
Wouldn't it make more sense to spend efforts making the best general purpose spam filter available better with core patches & other plugins rather than starting from scratch? Free software moves forward when someone has an itch to scratch. If you want to help solve the spam problem, contributing to the SpamAssassin project would be a good approach, or write one from scratch if you have fundamentally different ideas. If you want to make searching better, you can contribute to one of the many, many Perl based search projects (HT::Dig, Mnogosearch, Plucene, etc), or you can write one from scratch if you have fundamentally different ideas. But no matter what you do, do it because it's a probleem *you* want to solve. Perl is a huge language; there's almost no one out there who has used the entire language (which, presumably, would mean all of CPAN). Pick an area that interests you, and learn enough Perl to solve problems in that area. Then try a new area, and broaden your awareness of the language. There's little point in trying to swallow the whole thing at once just to solve some artificial problem you fished off this list :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
