On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:22:13 Kent Fredric wrote: > Hey, I'm bored. > > I'm guessing there's not a lot of people on the ML who this applies to, but > I figured, "Hey, if they're having a python *conference* here, maybe theres > enough of us Perl users to get into our own thing like". ( I also note its > sponsored by catalyst.net.nz, who seem to have /some/ Perl leanings, esp w/ > wellington pm ) > > There's wellington and auckland .pm groups, but eh, they're on the other > island. > > I've been toting a Little-Brittain esque "I'm the only Perl user in my > village" line on the various IRC networks for a while now, and I figure it > a good time to see if that claim is a valid one. > > http://search.cpan.org/~kentnl/ # This is me, and I'm "kentnl" on MAGnet/ > irc.perl.org , and "kent\n" on freenode. > > Any of you out there I'd love to hear about so I can stop feeling like > such an alien :) ( I seriously googled, and I came up bare handed, ) > > For the rest of you, especially of you programmingngy inclined, if you > ain't checked out Perl yet, or even haven't doven into it recently, I > humbly request you take a gander at > > > - http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ # A free EBook/Set of > PDFS > - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose # The latest and > greatest Object Oriented system for Perl > - http://www.catalystframework.org/ # The Perl > competition to Rails. > - http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Declare # A much more powerful way > to use Moose via creating new syntax for Perl in Perl. > > out/ [Resisting urge to make cheep shot about Little Britain having six jokes at most].
I learnt all of my basics in writing subroutines, modules and manual reading in perl. I have tried implementing an alternitive to make in perl before[1] as well some meta-programming tools that I doubt I'll ever need again. [1]Please don't ask to see it. It didn't work out well -- Quote of the login: "Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC.
