Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its core members

2000-10-17 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:37:27PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: - The core team appeared to be doing too much, meddling in affairs which didn't concern them. http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN4823 Q: Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? A: The really, really short answer

Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its core members

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Zander
"Adam" == Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN4823 The entry below that is even more apropos. -- Stephen "And what do we burn apart from witches?"... "More witches!"

perl should optimize for extreme cases (was Re: [FWP] Wanted - Have = Need)

2000-10-17 Thread John Porter
[Warning - mailing list violently altered!] John Carter wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, John Porter wrote: As a concrete example, perl's data structures are always managed in memory; while things like sort and merge have been written to utilize on-disk buffers when necessary. (Hmm...

Re: Happy Birthday, perl5!

2000-10-17 Thread Jorg Ziefle
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:47:54PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: According to my birthday file, perl5 is 6 years old as of 16:48:04 on Tuesday 17 October 2000. So, happy birthday to perl5! Hopefully, we can release perl6 by the time perl5 is 7 years old. :) Didn't the timeline say

Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its core members

2000-10-17 Thread Kurt D. Starsinic
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:30:37PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: "Adam" == Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN4823 The entry below that is even more apropos. Come come, Stephen. Don't start a flamewar. We all know that Perl's

mp3 of Larry's talk available

2000-10-17 Thread Nathan Torkington
http://www.technetcast.com Nat

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-17 Thread Nathan Torkington
Whoops, I misread the mp3 player. Not 1:26, that's the total length. 1:02 is where I was when I stopped. Ugh, transcription is hard says typist Barbie. Nat