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.

[Boston.pm] Were to start ?

2005-03-05 Thread Arthur Perkins
Hi I am 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. If any one on the list has any suggestions, or advice I would appreciate any help you could give me.

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

2005-03-05 Thread Greg London
> 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 trust me: good will >> is intended. I think the Tim Bunce doll should have

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

[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

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
Aaron Sherman wrote: CPAN continues to be one of the most useful resources on the planet. That requires a HUGE user-base, but there's plenty of room for the Javas and the Rubys and the Pythons and the C#s of the world. Someone commented recently on the london-ruby list that they wish more

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

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

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] CERTIFIABLE: a play in one act

2005-03-05 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:06 -0500, James Linden Rose, III wrote: > Perhaps we have just seen the next step in the evolution of Perl > culture. On stage dramatizations of "Classic" Perl polemics. Any body > want to create an oil painting of the debate? Actually, I'd love to see an