Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Mallory van Achterberg
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:09:32PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > Quoting Simon Dick : > > >On 20 November 2012 15:45, Uri Guttman wrote: > > [ snip ] > > >>in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they > >>helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:55:43AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > > >Conferences that need mentioning: TPC, German Perl Workshop (first Perl > >conference outside of TPC), YAPC, OSCON. And, considering where > >you're going to give the presentation: LPW. 2000 may be an interesting > >year: at YAPC::N

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 21/11/12 11:47, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:40:26AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 21/11/12 09:45, David H. Adler wrote: And here's one from 8 years ago. http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG It is important and/or enlightening to wonder why most of you are

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:40:26AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: >On 21/11/12 09:45, David H. Adler wrote: >>And here's one from 8 years ago. >>http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG >It is important and/or enlightening to wonder why most of you are >wearing pixie style tinfoil hats? Are the

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 21/11/12 09:45, David H. Adler wrote: Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago! http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html And here's one from 8 years ago. http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG It is important and/or enlightening to wonder why most of you ar

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:31:48AM +0100, Abigail wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:50:34AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Abigail wrote: > > > > > > I started using Perl in 1995, when the main focus on the community was > > > on Usenet. At that time,

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:36:57AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > Similar photo from YAPC 2000 in London > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmccarroll/49476450/ I was looking at this and going "wait, I know I was there..." Then I realized I still had some hair then... :-/ dha -- David H. Adler -

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:15:44AM +, Peter Sergeant wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help > > out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. > > > > Oh, and when was irc.perl.o

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Peter Sergeant : Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago! http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html Similar photo from YAPC 2000 in London http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmccarroll/49476450/ DAve...

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Abigail
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:50:34AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Abigail wrote: > > > > I started using Perl in 1995, when the main focus on the community was > > on Usenet. At that time, it was just comp.lang.perl; the split into > > multiple groups was

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread Peter Sergeant
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help > out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. > > Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up? > EFnet #perl was the 'original' Perl IRC channel - I'm sure Ran

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Abigail wrote: > > I started using Perl in 1995, when the main focus on the community was > on Usenet. At that time, it was just comp.lang.perl; the split into > multiple groups was either late 1995, or early 1996. I first joined a > Perl IRC channel in 1

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-21 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:46:30AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone > help out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. I'm thinking Kevin Lenzo would have a good idea. > Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up? I'm g