Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: Getting them to accept Perl may be tricky, but feel free to try ;-) Hmmm, I'm sure I wanted to enter this: This year Chris and I entered the Fifth ICFP Programming Contest: http://icfpcontest.cse.ogi.edu/ There's just one question, but

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-02 Thread Barbie
From: Jody Belka [EMAIL PROTECTED] robin szemeti said: as a first step, getting plenty of Perl people signed up and making Perl'y sort of noises on their 'internet specialist group' would probably be no bad thing ... http://www.isg.org.uk/member.htm I wonder what the chances of

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Barbie sent the following bits through the ether: The thing that bothers me, and perhaps Leon can clear this up, it does seem to be weighted on knowing the Windows platform. Are there other operating systems allowed? Nope, of course not. Leon -- Leon

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-02 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:33, Barbie wrote: The thing that bothers me, and perhaps Leon can clear this up, it does seem to be weighted on knowing the Windows platform. Are there other operating systems allowed? You mean like VMS or the IBM stuff? That is all rather old hat. Nobody much other

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-02 Thread Barbie
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barbie sent the following bits through the ether: The thing that bothers me, and perhaps Leon can clear this up, it does seem to be weighted on knowing the Windows platform. Are there other operating systems allowed? Nope, of course not. Then my

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-02 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Barbie wrote: Why? I expect the C Java libs will be standard, so why should Perl be any different. The NMS project has had to handle the fact they can only use standard installations of Perl, so I think it would make it more challenging to work from the same base of

re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread robin szemeti
as a first step, getting plenty of Perl people signed up and making Perl'y sort of noises on their 'internet specialist group' would probably be no bad thing ... http://www.isg.org.uk/member.htm its free btw, -- Robin Szemeti

re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread Jody Belka
robin szemeti said: as a first step, getting plenty of Perl people signed up and making Perl'y sort of noises on their 'internet specialist group' would probably be no bad thing ... http://www.isg.org.uk/member.htm its free btw, -- Robin Szemeti From the rules: b. All problem

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread john imrie
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