[De-CCing Beginners]
Hi Ovid!
Thanks a lot for your commentary - I believe it is all valid. Perlmeme.org is
still under development and still need a lot of extra work. We decided to go
public now rather than later because Perlmeme was still good enough as it is.
I am CCing this message to Simon Taylor, who'll hopefully take care of
integrating what you said into the site. If you feel like contributing more,
or just supervising the work, head on to perlmeme-org.sf.net and choose one
or more of the ways in which you can help. We'll be glad to have you
on-board!
Thanks again.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 02 October 2005 21:21, Ovid wrote:
> --- Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://perlmeme.org/
>
> In http://perlmeme.org/start_here/our_motivations.html there's a lot of
> talk about dealing with "anti-Perl memes" and, essentially, how to
> market Perl. Given that, I can only wonder why the site creators
> didn't bother to contact The Perl Foundation
> (http://www.perlfoundation.org/) as the latter is always interested in
> new volunteers with energy and creative ability who are willing to help
> out on that very topic.
>
> And is there any mention of the Perl community? I can't see it there.
> The site purports to be a resource for "selling" Perl and overcoming
> the negative reaction many folks have to the language, but the site is
> little more than a cookbook. How can one market Perl and leave out one
> of its strongest selling points?
>
> Oh, and this is bad, just bad:
> http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/subroutines/perl_files.html
>
> And can you find the runtime errors on this page's code?
> http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/using_perl/display_text_message.html
>
> And plenty of little bugs and typos here:
> http://www.perlmeme.org/tutorials/cgi_script.html
>
> There's more and nitpicking seems petty but for a site which has the
> stated goal of addressing the "many irrational anti-Perl memes", it
> really needs to get things right.
>
> Cheers,
> Ovid
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