To the uninitiated or person "considering" Perl, seeing articles > > averaging 5+ yrs of age, it looks like a ghost town. The reality is that > > many of those articles are still relevant. But how can you explain/train > > that concept? The parallel is people looking up at sourceforge and like > > sites, ... to see a module that's 5 yrs old will communicate that it's > > headed for death. Do we "bump" these articles or rally for writing new > > ones? If they looked to CPAN to start with, they'd see a very active > > bunch. The truth is our Perl world is very stable and we're all busy > > getting work done by writing Perl code and we've stopped writing about > > Perl. Newer alternatives are still in ramp-up stages, and so the > > articles and activity make it look busier and safe from the roads of > > abandonment.
One way is to enlist people [ok, I'm an idiot, I'll volunteer] to go back over some of the really useful artciles and annotate them as being useful for perl-5.8 & -5.10. Q: What are 8-10 really good, useful articles you know of that are relavant to the current release and "seem" old? The best approach might just be to write a short piece describing why the thing is still relavant, perhaps noting how a chnge in 5.8 or 5.10 helps the situation w/ a link to the original. If nothing else it'll give me a chance to fondle 5.10 a bit more and see how the new stuff might affect what's going on. If someone'll give me access I'll stick the results on a blog somewhere. -- Steven Lembark +1 888 359 3508 Workhorse Computing 85-09 90th St [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woodhaven, NY 11421
