Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Bamboo Basket

2008-12-03 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Léon Brocard wrote: 2008/12/1 Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is today! Who's coming? i should be Its just close enough that its only a 2 hour lunch instead of 3 :) -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomne

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Bamboo Basket

2008-12-03 Thread Léon Brocard
2008/12/1 Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is today! Who's coming? > Bamboo Basket > Westfield London > Shephard's Bush Tube Station > http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W127SL > http://uk.westfield.com/london/find/detail/dining?category=2020&retailer=35482 > http://uk.westfield.com/london/fin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec

2008-12-03 Thread Léon Brocard
2008/12/1 Kake L Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello! The December social of the London Perlmongers is this Thursday, > 4th December. We're going back to the Bridge House, which is the > Adnams place at the south end of Tower Bridge. We have the upstairs > function room booked from 6:30pm. This i

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Andy Wardley
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: Also see this lively discussion in Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7h3pa/perl_5_is_dying/ A

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Peter Corlett
On 3 Dec 2008, at 17:55, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html SQL's not a programming language like the others are. It's a minilanguage, like regular expressions or formats, so can be discounted. The rest add

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, James Laver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-03 20:10, "Avleen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's a singular datapoint, but to answer the "how many python jobs..", >> I would ask "how many engineers has Google hired in London in the last >> few years? >>

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, James Laver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I like Python too and wish the same. >> I like that is enforces structure. I'd donate a kidney if perl could >> be made to do that. > > It's not the place of a language to do that, it's a case of "Don't be an > idiot when wri

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread James Laver
On 2008-12-03 20:10, "Avleen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a singular datapoint, but to answer the "how many python jobs..", > I would ask "how many engineers has Google hired in London in the last > few years? > It's *one* job application with lots of hires, many of whom will have > to us

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:42:14PM +, James Laver typed: > >> At risk of being somewhat london-centric, how many jobs have you seen >> advertised for python down here recently? >> >> In the past year or so I've seen about

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Steve Mynott
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:42:14PM +, James Laver typed: > At risk of being somewhat london-centric, how many jobs have you seen > advertised for python down here recently? > > In the past year or so I've seen about 5 python jobs advertised (at least > that I've noticed). Alongside this ther

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/12/3 Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed 3.Dec'08 at 17:55:55 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >>> >>> In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: >>> >>> http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html >> >> Is there really no Ruby or Python on that list? > > There weren't on the

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Bob Walker
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, James Laver wrote: Most of the ruby jobs (usually rails) are startups that will die a couple of months in or those gigs the BBC can't seem to get rid of. not that there are any spare ruby programmers to go round anyway. Although hopefully this is changing soon with lots mo

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:42:14PM +, James Laver wrote: > going bust but it's still going (albeit somewhat wounded). On the other > hand, the PHP market is brilliant, just for the most part it pays pretty > badly (and you have to work with PHP...). And, as conversations on IRC seem to be sug

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Dec 3, 2008, at 18:37, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3 Dec 2008, at 18:13, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Wed 3.Dec'08 at 17:55:55 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html Is there really no Ru

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread David Alban
according to the info on the site, perl skills offer higher rates than most of the "top 20" skills. -- Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread James Laver
On 2008-12-03 18:13, "Jesse Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed 3.Dec'08 at 17:55:55 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> >> In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: >> >> http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html > > Is there really no Ruby or Python on that list? A

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 Dec 2008, at 18:13, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Wed 3.Dec'08 at 17:55:55 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html Is there really no Ruby or Python on that list? There weren't on the original list.

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed 3.Dec'08 at 17:55:55 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: > > http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html Is there really no Ruby or Python on that list? pgpVMIO4lShST.pgp Description: PGP signature

Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com