Re: Why I Hate Advocacy at www.perl.com

2000-12-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: So far Matt has asked whether someone is interested to help him to keep take23 up to date, I doubt whether anybody has contacted Matt and offered help. Actually thats not true - the response has been great. For those who did reply, I'm firefighting

Re: Why I Hate Advocacy at www.perl.com

2000-12-16 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: So far Matt has asked whether someone is interested to help him to keep take23 up to date, I doubt whether anybody has contacted Matt and offered help. Actually thats not true - the response has been great. For those who did reply, I'm

Why I Hate Advocacy at www.perl.com

2000-12-14 Thread Stas Bekman
While we are on the topic, check out this wise write up by mjd. http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html It starts with: "I think programming language advocacy is a big problem, not just for the Perl community, but for the larger programming community" ends with: "I have a book on my