DCPM: Perl Mongers

[Simon Waters]

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Matthew Browning wrote:
>
> 3. There has been talk of meetings in the past.  These do not come
> about because the membership of DCPM is very small.  Recruitment is,
> therefore, required.  I large number of people who use Perl on a
> regualr basis are currently being relocated to Exeter with the move of
> the Met Office.  I have instructed Mrs B. to casually mention the
> existance of DCPM to colleagues who look like they might be interested.
>  Further suggestions welcome.

Oh, I also know far too many people at the UK Met. Office, although when
I worked there they were more likely to rewrite everything in Fortran 77
(despite the standard actually falling into some sad state of
disrepair), rather than brave something new and strange like Perl.
Fortunately things have changed somewhat since I joined, and I suspect
people no longer eye you suspiciously if you code in something not
invented by IBM.

Bruce (copied) probably has a good feel for people who belong in the
Devon and Cornwall Perl Monger list, I would kick Kirby, but he already
thinks I'm strange having tried to recruit him to the Devon and Cornwall
 Linux User Group.

I plead Perl still feels like line noise to me on occaison, but I am
developing a pressing requirement to be able to write Perl for websites
as part of my new job, so a meeting where I get to exchange beer for the
opportunity to review Matthew's book collection is urgently needed ;)

Thursday or Friday is good for me, perhaps me and Matthew agree a place
and time offlist and present the list with fait accompli?

 Simon

PS: Megabyte are having a closing down sale, everything half price.

PPS: If you never found Megabyte after they moved from Paris street, and
presumably many didn't else why are they shutting, they are now next to
the "Love Shack" sex shop, which is somewhere behind Titan (the computer
shop Shabir runs on Sidwell street). Think turning by Motorman/Kwik Fit.
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