Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-05 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:16 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: I'd be willing to bet that Jesse has encountered, with some regularity, resistance to commercial adoption of RT due to its use of Perl. Ah... hey, I'm a fan of RT overall, but lack of commercial adoption would be a result of the fact that

Re: [Boston.pm] CPANPLUS

2005-03-05 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 02:08 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: Aaron Sherman wrote: * Help make CPANPLUS work well with all extant package managers * CPANPLUS - Better integration (platform bias removal) Could you expand upon CPANPLUS? I played around with it a while ago. I tried out the Tk UI, but

Re: [Boston.pm] why popularity matters

2005-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
Tom Metro wrote: David Cantrell wrote: ...if desperate you have to wonder *why* they are desperate - what is it about them that has kept them unemployed? If their skills were unmarketable why could they not learn new skills? You do realize that we're in the midst of a discussion pondering the

[Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-05 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:16:36AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: Adam Turoff wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm...isn't that sort of what were talking about? If there's no job market for Perl, that's kinda hard to do. Even if you run a business where Perl is

Re: [Boston.pm] CERTIFIABLE: a play in one act

2005-03-05 Thread James Freeman
Genius. Pure Genius. I tip my hat to you, sir, and whilst doing so pick up my doll Bogart Salzberg wrote: I put some of our recent posts on the certification issue into a blender and this is what came out. Some of you will recognize your own words. However, it's supposed to be fun, so

Re: [Boston.pm] Were to start ?

2005-03-05 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 07:29:31PM -0800, Arthur Perkins wrote: I am very new perl user, Welcome, very new perl user. and I am interested in starting a project with a product called ModBus. It is an embedded application for industrial controllers. I am not quite clear on how to start. At