Though there doubtless isn't time for a deatiled history of the
lighter side of Perl culture, for completeness, in addition to
Acme modules, we have: JAPH, Obfu, Golf, Poetry, April Fools.
Some highlights:
JAPH: First JAPH by merlyn 1988, followed later by trickier ones.
Abigail's later populari
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Sam Kington wrote:
> Some mention should be made also of the attempt to rewrite the entire Unix
> support structure in Perl - things like ls, find, head etc. I don't think
> this ever went very far, and it appears to be very difficult to Google if
> it's still aro
On 20 Nov 2012, at 16:09, Dave Cross wrote:
[regarding matt's scripts]
> If anyone is unaware of the London Perl Mongers' reaction to Matt's scripts,
> you should probably read http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html
Some mention should be made also of the attempt to rewrite the entire Unix
supp
On 11/22/2012 12:17 PM, Abigail wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
the first yapc in pitt/cmu run by lenzo was in the red. during the
banquet we passed around a (real) hat). we collected over $2k to cover
the shortage.
Actually, the collection was during Kevi
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> the first yapc in pitt/cmu run by lenzo was in the red. during the
> banquet we passed around a (real) hat). we collected over $2k to cover
> the shortage.
Actually, the collection was during Kevins closing remarks. The $2k was
On 11/22/2012 07:19 AM, Abigail wrote:
I do remember Kevin giving us a tour of CMU, which included the location
of the box that was running purl. This was during one of the first YAPCs,
so indeed no later than 19100.
A community thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: conference auctions.
(Isn't
Mark Keating wrote:
> We shall assemble between 08:00 and 08:15 on the morning of the
> conference to help with the moving of books, setting up of video
> cameras, placing of room signs, organising sponsors desks, packing
> bags etc. - Anyone who can be there all hands are welcome. martin
> Brooks
On 22 Nov 2012, at 12:19, Abigail wrote:
> A community thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: conference auctions.
> (Isn't London.pm still "suffering" from the outcome of an auction in 2001?)
I consider it an interesting quirk. Interestingly the PHP and python meetups in
london all pick the fir
Quoting Guinevere Nell :
On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm
not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's
accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the
heart of most development ...
That's a good point
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:09:36PM +, Guinevere Nell wrote:
> On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm
> not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's
> accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the
> heart o
On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm
not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's
accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the
heart of most development ... on the irc topic, will you be mentioning
purl? I
Quoting Matt Freake :
1/ Technical
What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which
Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other
technical things that need to be covered?
Has the CPAN shell always been there? Discovering that made me li
>
> 1/ Technical
>
> What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which
> Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other
> technical things that need to be covered?
>
Has the CPAN shell always been there? Discovering that made me life a lot
easier
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
> At the LPW on Saturday I'm giving a talk entitled "25 Years of Perl"
Twenty five years is a long time, so inevitably some Perl
hackers have passed away during that period:
Iain Truskett (aka "Spoon"/"Koschei")
Nick Ing-Simmons
Dr Ra
Hi all,
As usual the London Perl Workshop is shouting out for volunteers to help
us set up and run the days activities. In previous years I have received
a lot of help from the community and i hope to persuade you to help again.
We shall assemble between 08:00 and 08:15 on the morning of the
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