[m_to_simon_cozens@wickline.org: perl6 not stagnant]
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:13:17 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: perl6 not stagnant To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Real-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: English,en perhaps another way perl6 could appear less stagnant might be to revive the old rfc-announce list for the purpose of distributing pdd's (or better still, create a pdd-announce list, then announce it's existance on the perl6 announce list) I believe the rfc announce list had many subscribers (and probably still does). I suspect that a pdd announce list would be similarly popular -matt - End forwarded message - -- What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. - Dave Barry
Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl
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 getting much done, and that's a *GOOD* thing. Language design is a very tough nut to crack, and we decided (as a group) that we don't want a language designed by committee, we want a languaged designed by Larry. The best we can do (frustrating as it may be) is to let him think deeply. 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. K.
perl6-language needs admin help too :)
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 summaries and/or general list admin? K.
Re: perl6-language needs admin help too :)
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 everything (You're getting this, like it or not. :) * One weekly summary of each list * One weekly summary of each list feeding into a weekly summary of everything * Something else? -- linux-2.3.99-pre9.tar: limbo program - plan9 has a bad day
Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)
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 subscribable, but there are some teething problems with posting. (Which needn't concern you, except that if you subscribe right now, you'll see a flurry of test posts for a while.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the magic address; at some point in the near future, I might move the perl5-porters digest there as well. -- There is no distinction between any AI program and some existent game.
Re: perl6-language needs admin help too :)
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 this. Do you want: * One weekly summary of everything (You're getting this, like it or not. :) * One weekly summary of each list * One weekly summary of each list feeding into a weekly summary of everything * Something else? My suspicion is that one weekly summary of all relevant p6 list traffic will be most efficient. Those who don't wish to follow everything can always skip less interesting sections of the digest. -- Darin Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl-QA needs administrative help
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 who's driving the thread) and then corral everyone there. As a current example, the "todo tests" discussion should probably be split. It also involves nudging off-topic conversations off-list.
Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)
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 telling the boys to set it up. However, it parallels the perl5-porters list, which is [EMAIL PROTECTED] We use ezmlm, anyway, which doesn't care about the -summaries thing. And I've announced it now, and people have been subscribing so I think it would cause more confusion to change it. -- fga is frequently given answers... the best are "Date::Calc", "use a hash", and "yes, it's in CPAN" or Data::Dumper or mySQL or "check your permissions" or NO Fmh THAT'S WRONG or "You can't. crypt is one-way" or "yes, i'm single" or "I think that's a faq." or substr! or "use split" or "man perlre" - #perl
Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists
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. Could O'Reilly and Microsoft divert some funds to actually paying people for helping out? That would change the ball game something massive I can't speak the final word for O'Reilly, but I can say that we're already paying Larry's salary and have basically told him that his most important job is Perl6. Until that shows fruit, we'd be very unlikely to tip more money in the way of perl6. Good luck getting blood from a ston^W^W^W^W money from Microsoft :-) Particularly after this: http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)
