This is the seventeenth weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers
mailing list. For the crazy week starting 2001-05-14:
Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is a social meeting apparently on Thursday 7th June which clashes with
elections:
http://london.pm.org/
It was a very busy week, but the most important thing to know was that
Damian Conway started of a series of articles about containing perl6
programs to give us a flavour for the language (which doesn't contain
porn and won't be visualperl, honest):
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/08/exegesis2.html
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn/?stage=1&word=Exegesis
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05684.html
Greg McCarroll started off by posting a rather amusing drinking game
based around London.pm. We had thoughts about London.pm - the Movie,
but it came to nothing (other than Snow Crash with vampires):
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05120.html
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05359.html
Dave Cross was obviously feeling rather ill this week, as he posted a
rather pretty Perl script which abuses substr, and a magic regex
module tieing wotsit doodah:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05138.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05206.html
Struan Donald asked about escape characters in files, and everyone
helped him:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05172.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05175.html
Paul Mison posted about organising a second constrained walk:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05207.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05221.html
Dominic Mitchell asked what people had on top of their
monitors. People answered: nothing (flatscreen), various Kinder egg
toys (giraffes, cars), squealing monkies, a furry orangutan climbing
an inflatable Big Ben, many dust puppies, Network Programming with
Perl, post-it notes, japanese netsuke depicting a cat, various beanie
babies with strange relationships (goose, duck), marzipan models of
Bagpuss, many Tuxes, various swag, a cowboy hat, real cats, a frog,
dinosaurs, caffinated mints, coffe mugs, a beach ball, a Spaced DVD,
'Worms World Party', various computer bits, chocolate, a ximian
monkey, Star Wars figures, cider and vodka, vibrating rabbits, and
some lego. So now you know.
There was a huge thread on politics. No-one got flamed. Many people
didn't care much for it at all. Mark Fowler wrote a good summary
again, so I'll just link to him rather than the people who came up
with original ideas:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05477.html
Leo Lapworth posted about a Perl job at Cloudband:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05584.html
In other news: XP again, London.pm tshirts, TPJ is alive, Transtec
sparc clones are cool, Buffy buffy buffy, fake news articles, the
latest FHM containing Buffy crew, autodia, vampires everywhere, Angel
boobapalooza, TPC Quiz Team, YAPC, conspiracy theories,
Content-Encoding: gzip, that all online computer shops are crap, memes
past their time, pidgin English, the computer language shootout,
Ocaml, and reducing people's code to one-liners:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05678.html
http://www.fhm.co.uk/girls/2001/holding.htm
http://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/antibetdesign/vampires.htm
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05808.html
Now all I have to do is not volunteer for the p5p summary, Leon
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