Perl magazines
I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of subscribers by over two thirds and i thought i'd ask about other peoples views on The Perl Review and TPJ. My view is that if a magazine can't get 3000 subs internationaly then it should be left to die, if it can then good luck. Should the two perl mags be folded in to one (Why pay for TPJ when TPR is free? Is the competition harmful?) or should we have a scripting language (bi-?)monthly and pull in Python (Although pyzine is quite a good read) Ruby and maybe even TCL? Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
Re: Perl magazines
* Dean Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of subscribers by over two thirds and i thought i'd ask about other peoples views on The Perl Review and TPJ. My view is that if a magazine can't get 3000 subs internationaly then it should be left to die, if it can then good luck. FWIW, I'd be willing to buy at least 2 subscriptions to TPR if they had a similar call to arms. However I am cynical at best of SysAdmin magazine/whoever's bastardisation of TPJ. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl magazines
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Dean Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of subscribers by over two thirds and i thought i'd ask about other peoples views on The Perl Review and TPJ. My view is that if a magazine can't get 3000 subs internationaly then it should be left to die, if it can then good luck. FWIW, I'd be willing to buy at least 2 subscriptions to TPR if they had a similar call to arms. However I am cynical at best of SysAdmin magazine/whoever's bastardisation of TPJ. TPR _does_ have a similar call to arms http://www.theperlreview.com/. I've subscribed to TPR. I haven't subscribed to TPJ. Dave... -- Brian: Oh screw Maximilian! Sally: I do. Brian: So do I.
Re: Perl magazines
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd be willing to buy at least 2 subscriptions to TPR TPR _does_ have a similar call to arms http://www.theperlreview.com/. Excellent, before I buy 2+ subscriptions is there a way I could buy 1 subscription but have it cost more? I warn the organisers that if they force me to buy extra subscriptions in order to support this excellent endeavour I will come up with something ludicrous to do with the extra copies. When was this announced? I'd suggest if i didn't know about it, either a.) i got confused and forgetful (entirely possible), or b.) it wasn't announced widely (wildly?) enough. Also is dha still the editor, different parts of the website seem to disagree on this. Greg p.s. EVERYONE SHOULD SUBSCRIBE! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl magazines
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:30:03PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd be willing to buy at least 2 subscriptions to TPR TPR _does_ have a similar call to arms http://www.theperlreview.com/. When was this announced? I'd suggest if i didn't know about it, either a.) i got confused and forgetful (entirely possible), or b.) it wasn't announced widely (wildly?) enough. It seems to be on use.perl, but I didn't know about it either. I subscribe to an inordinate number of Perl mailing lists and tend to think that anything important will eventually get to one of them. This seems to have done so (three weeks later), but I would have missed the Perl 6 Mini::Conference if I hadn't seen it on The Conway Channel. p.s. EVERYONE SHOULD SUBSCRIBE! -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
