From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Mon Jul 3 08:51:46 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:24 2004 Subject: Fwd: golf invite (fwd) Message-ID: <20000703135146.63053.qmail@hotmail.com> >From: brian d foy >Reply-To: brian d foy >To: groups@lists.panix.com, news@perl.org, >perl-mongers-announce@happyfunball.pm.org >Subject: golf invite (fwd) >Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:52:39 -0400 (EDT) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from mx02.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.51]) by >mta02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) >with ESMTP id ><20000703051759.KSKR18153.mta02.mrf.mail.rcn.net@mx02.mrf.mail.rcn.net> > for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 >01:17:59 -0400 >Received: from dont.panix.com ([166.84.0.211])by mx02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with >esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3)id 138ycI-0001q8-00for rmanning@erols.com; Mon, 3 Jul >2000 01:17:58 -0400 >Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]])by dont.panix.com >(8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixLC1.6) id AAA16903for groups-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 >00:52:50 -0400 (EDT) >Received: from staging.sri.net (maestro.sri.net [166.84.185.2])by >dont.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixLC1.6) with ESMTP id AAA16895for >; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:52:44 -0400 (EDT) >Received: from localhost (tidbit@localhost)by staging.sri.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) >with SMTP id AAA27584;Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:52:39 -0400 (EDT) >Return-Path: >Message-ID: >Sender: owner-groups@lists.pm.org >Precedence: bulk > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 19:11:24 -0400 >From: Uri Guttman >To: brian d foy >Subject: golf invite > > >brian, > >lease forward this to the monger group leaders and ask them to forward >it to their local lists. note, they have first crack at registering and >in a few days i will announce it everywhere else. you can say something >to that effect (and it is in the invitation too). > >thanx, > >uri > > Announcing the First Annual Perl Golf Apocalypse > >Larry Wall, the father of Perl, has observed that the three virtues of a >programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Laziness has been >explained as doing more with less. A variation of that is doing the same >with less. For quite a while the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc has had >threads where each poster was trying to solve a basic problem with >shorter code than the previous post. This type of coding competition was >named Perl Golf by Greg Bacon because in both Perl and physical golf the >goal is to finish with the fewest (key)strokes. > >Now the Perl Golf Committee (led by Uri, who conceived the idea) has been >hard at work organizing a Perl Golf Tournament for the 4th Perl Conference >in Monterey this July. > >The Perl Golf Apocalypse (PGA) is for 10 teams, each comprised of up to 3 >Perl hackers. Each team will be given its own computer to use and will >to try to solve a set of simple problems by writing a short piece of >Perl code. Each team must submit its code, which will then be tested and >compared to the answers from the other teams. Each problem (or hole as >we call them) will be given to all the teams at the same time and will >have a time limit (about 5-7 minutes, depending on the hole). There >will be 9 holes in all and after 4 of them the 5 lowest scoring teams >will be cut (just like in real golf tournaments). > >There are three ways to score points on a hole. > > * First, if the code submitted by a team correctly solves the > problem, 1 point is awarded. > > * Second, the correct answer with the fewest keystrokes is awarded 6 > points with the next two runners up getting 5 and 4 points each. > > * Third, the correct answer which was submitted the earliest, is > awarded 3 points with the next two runners up getting 2 and 1 points > each. > >So a team can earn a maximum of 10 points on one hole. It is important >to note that the execution speed of the code is not a factor in scoring. > >The holes will be judged by a Perl script created by us. It will check >the correctness of all the submissions, rank them by the shortest code >and also rank them by the timestamps on the submitted answer files. Then >the script will award points and keep track of scores for each >team. Another script will be used by the commentators to display the >current point totals for the teams, the scoring for a given hole and the >actual code submitted by the teams. > >After all the holes are finished, the teams will be ranked by score, and >from highest to lowest, they will be allowed to choose their prizes. The >prize list includes computers, refrigerators stuffed with booty, cruise >discounts, cdroms, books, clothing, etc. Everyone who enters the >tournament is guaranteed a prize. > >Our two guests, Chip Salzenberg and Chris Nandor will provide >an entertaining commentary on the proceedings. > > >This invitation is being sent to the Perl Mongers in advance of other >groups to give you a first chance to register to play in the PGA. >Groups of 3 or 2 registering together as a team will be given preference >over single entrants, so get your local monger group to enter a team. > >Send your registration request to golf@sysarch.com with this >information: > > Monger Affiliation > Team Name > Member Count > Real name and email for each team member > > If you are a single entrant, do you want us to put you on a > team? > > Optionally, tell us your level of perl experience > >You can also visit the Perl Golf page at >http://www.sysarch.com/perl/golf/ which has the PGA rules and >invitation, the prize and sponsor list, a real golfing thread from >c.l.p.misc, and more. > >The Perl Golf Apocalypse Team > >Uri Guttman >Brand Hilton >Ronald Kimball >Larry Rosler >Damian Conway > > > >-- >Uri Guttman --------- uri@sysarch.com ---------- http://www.sysarch.com >SYStems ARCHitecture, Software Engineering, Perl, Internet, UNIX Consulting >The Perl Books Page ----------- http://www.sysarch.com/cgi-bin/perl_books >The Best Search Engine on the Net ---------- http://www.northernlight.com > > >**Majordomo list services provided by PANIX ** >**To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe groups" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Fri Jul 21 06:43:45 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:24 2004 Subject: Best-Selling Perl Books half-price! 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Rob ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Fri Jul 21 11:39:47 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:24 2004 Subject: Fwd: Perl 6 development begins in earnest Message-ID: >Sender: owner-groups@lists.pm.org >Precedence: bulk > > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 18, 2000 contact brian d foy, >brian+perl6@smithrenaud.com > >LARRY WALL ANNOUNCES BROAD VISION FOR PERL 6 > >In his keynote address to the O'Reilly Second Open Source >Convention, Larry Wall laid out his vision for the future >development of Perl 6. Larry reports that "Perl 6 >development has began in earnest". > >The next version of Perl is a chance for the language >developers to both rewrite the internals and externals of >Perl based on their experience from developing Perl 5, and >Chip Salzenbergs work with Topaz. Larry promises that Perl >6 will be "better, stronger, faster" and that there will be >a clear, clean migration path from Perl 5 to Perl 6. A >preview release of should be available by next summer. > >Perl 6 will use a development model that draws from the >lessons learned from perl5-porters and other large open >source projects such as the Apache web server and the Linux >operating system. Development topics will be assigned to >working groups which will work under a central project >manager. Nat Torkington is the interim project manager. >Details will be made available in the Perl 6 section of >www.perl.org. > >The current major release of Perl will continue to be >supported. The maintenance track will be led by Jarkko >Hietaniemi. Current development tracks, such as Unicode >support, will be finished in Perl 5. > >Interested developers can subscribe to the Perl 6 >development mailing list by sending a message to >bootstrap-subscribe@perl.org. > > > > >-- >brian d foy >Director of Technology, Smith Renaud, Inc. >875 Avenue of the Americas, 2510, New York, NY 10001 > V: (212) 239-8985 > > >**Majordomo list services provided by PANIX ** >**To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe groups" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Tue Jul 25 07:28:06 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:24 2004 Subject: Perl Mongers Meeting - Aug. 1 Message-ID: Just a reminder that the Baltimore Perl Mongers will meet on Tuesday, August 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the Community of Science office building in Fells Point (for directions see http://www.cos.com/contact/directions.shtml) This month we'll be celebrating the group's one-year anniversary with an informal open-topic format. I have a t-shirt to hand out, and I'll be bringing cookies as well. As always, our generous sponsor the Community of Science will provide free cans of soda. New attendees are always welcome and much appreciated, so come and join us. Rob Rob Manning r_m_manning@hotmail.com Principal Analyst Work (410) 396-4963 TeleCommunication Systems FAX (410) 396-4236 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com