Re: Rules Of Engagement (What the Hell is this List for anyway?)

2002-04-23 Thread Pete Prodoehl
My hopes are this... as perl and OS X become better friends, we will see more *exciting* things on this list. I think DropScript http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/software/ is one example, and CamelBones http://camelbones.sf.net/ is another. (DropScript now works the way MacPerl droplets

Rules Of Engagement (What the Hell is this List for anyway?)

2002-04-16 Thread ellem
Any list, newsgroup or human conversation will veer off course possibly towards absurdity. This is the nature of thought exchange. I lurk much of the time and gleen as much as I can from everything I read here. Seeing Randal hoping for readable code was... wonderful. That may not be Perl OS

Re: Rules Of Engagement (What the Hell is this List for anyway?)

2002-04-16 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 01:47 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: 2. Chris has promptly and forthrightly apologized; any further discussion that does not acknowledge this would seem inappropriate. I do acknowledge, it is very kind of you Chris. I commend that. I have also commended you on

Re: Rules Of Engagement (What the Hell is this List for anyway?)

2002-04-16 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote: On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 01:47 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: 2. Chris has promptly and forthrightly apologized; any further discussion that does not acknowledge this would seem inappropriate. I do acknowledge, it is very kind of you Chris. I

Re: Rules Of Engagement (What the Hell is this List for anyway?)

2002-04-16 Thread Alex Robinson
that other-list polluting bastard Well, seeing that my name has been dragged in to the mud by that macintosh-know-nothing Devers, I might as well chip in with my 2 units of $currency two audiences: [a] seasoned hackers that just see OSX as another platform to adapt [b] people exposed to

Re: Rules Of Engagement (What the Hell is this List for anyway?)

2002-04-16 Thread robinmcf
And there I was thinking how lucky we were on OSX to have gotten away for the most part from the kind of radical posing and entrenchement that other perl mailing lists have. In bygone time this kind of posting would have had "NETTIQUETTE" somewhere in it's subject line. In short this list is