[m_to_simon_cozens@wickline.org: perl6 not stagnant]

2001-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
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Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl

2001-02-15 Thread Kirrily Skud Robert
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:13:30PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:03:12PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: > > There's obvious FUD out there and we don't seem to be giving the impression of > > getting much done, or doing anything to counter it. > > Let's be fair. We're not ge

perl6-language needs admin help too :)

2001-02-15 Thread Kirrily Skud Robert
As many of you may know, I've recently moved to the other side of the world, and my life's a bit hectic. I hadn't counted on p6-l bursting into life just now, and while I'd like to keep right up to date with it I really can't guarantee daily reading. Would anyone like to volunteer to do weekly s

Re: perl6-language needs admin help too :)

2001-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:57:13AM -0500, Kirrily Skud Robert wrote: > Would anyone like to volunteer to do weekly summaries Well, don't forget that I *do* have people helping me out with the weekly summaries. I don't know how people want to play this. Do you want: * One weekly summary of e

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread H . Merijn Brand
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:44:38 +, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was being serious. But first, a plea: > > This is much harder than doing the Perl 5 summaries, because I have to > watch over a lot more things. I'd appreciate some help; if you feel this > is a useful exercise and yo

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:46:08PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > Would it be possible to make this summary subsribable, so I can drop my > subscribtions to p6-internal? To you, and to everyone else who has asked, yes. I'm working on setting up a list right now, hosted at netthink. It's currently

Re: perl6-language needs admin help too :)

2001-02-15 Thread Darin Dugan
At 09:23 AM 2/15/2001, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:57:13AM -0500, Kirrily Skud Robert wrote: > > Would anyone like to volunteer to do weekly summaries > >Well, don't forget that I *do* have people helping me out with the weekly >summaries. I don't know how people want to play t

Re: Perl-QA needs administrative help

2001-02-15 Thread schwern
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear on the "mailing list organization" bit. What the job really is, someone to spot out-of-control threads (for instance, the "par" discussion on perl6-language), split off a new mailing list for it (by requesting from Ask), appointing a chair (probably the person wh

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: [...] > To you, and to everyone else who has asked, yes. I'm working on setting > up a list right now, hosted at netthink. It's currently subscribable, but > there are some teething problems with posting. (Which needn't concern you, > except that if you s

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:11:33AM -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the magic address; > > -digest has a specific meaning with many mailing list managers. I > would suggest calling it perl6-summaries or such to avoid confusion. Yuh, I thought of that the second after tell

Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl

2001-02-15 Thread Nathan Torkington
Kirrily Skud Robert writes: > Wasn't he meant to be keeping us up to date with snippets of what he's > doing/thinking about? I recall Nat posting a couple of months ago that > he'd talked to Larry and Larry had said he'd do this. I think the problem is that the RFCs aren't really a list of the t

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 21:32, Nathan Torkington wrote: > David L. Nicol writes: > > Is there a budget? Apprenticeship makes all kinds of sense when > > there is actually a money flow into the guild; the carrot of eventual > > credentials is too weak for me and many lesser poetasters. > >

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread schwern
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:57:02PM -0500, Bryan C . Warnock wrote: > Particularly after this: > > http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc "Innovation-- you keep using this word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread David Grove
> http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?t > ag=ltnc I wish I could think of something commensurate to say. I don't think I've ever seen this much cockamamey horseradish on a single sheet of cyberpaper. The most absurd part of it is that the bastages actually