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 getting

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: Ask, could we have the PDDs placed up on dev.perl.org in the same way as the RFCs, please? I made a simple list of what we have so far at http://dev.perl.org/ppd/ - ask -- ask bjoern hansen - http://ask.netcetera.dk/

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-11 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 06:57:03AM +, Simon Cozens wrote: Likewise. More so since I didn't even receive it. I retract that; I've been having mail problems all weekend and it's since arrived. Brian, you're not in my good books today, this month or this year. Please sort it out. Now. I

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-11 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 11:28:45AM -0500, brian d foy wrote: okay. i quit. Well, hm. I'd rather we actually made something positive out of this. 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. Part of the

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-11 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:03:12PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: In order to do something about this, I suggest that we should: i) ... ii) ... I forgot iii)... Ask, could we have the PDDs placed up on dev.perl.org in the same way as the RFCs, please? So far we have http:[EMAIL

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: Perhaps we're not giving the right impression. Hey, brian, aren't you supposed to be preventing this from happening? no, it isn't. I find this response somewhat mysterious. -- a

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-10 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 01:46:42AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: Perhaps we're not giving the right impression. Hey, brian, aren't you supposed to be preventing this from happening? no, it isn't. I find this

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-10 Thread brian d foy
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: Perhaps we're not giving the right impression. Hey, brian, aren't you supposed to be preventing this from happening? no, it isn't. -- brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Friday 09 February 2001 14:06, Simon Cozens wrote: I'm not sure "stagnant" is the best choice of word to describe that. It used to be that feeping creaturism was the scourge - folks clamoring for a little stability in their tools and products. Now it seems what was once "stability" is now

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, but you see, we're not generating code. All the rest of the stuff is irrelevant, and Real Hackers don't need to design--it's all self-evident. Besides, you only need to design if you're building one of those Cathedral thingies, and we all know how bad

Re: Art Of Unix Programming on Perl

2001-02-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: [...] minimalism) and I tried to, but there was some kind of ugly technical snafu with Skud's listserv and I couldn't get signed on. listserv? We use ezmlm around here. :) If you still want to join in then look at http://dev.perl.org/ -