From williamday at email.com  Sat Aug  3 07:52:14 2002
From: williamday at email.com (Bill Day)
Date: Wed Aug  4 00:01:22 2004
Subject: PerlMongers call for presentations
Message-ID: <20020803125214.3084.qmail@email.com>

We don't have a presentation lined up for the August 30 meeting (It's a holiday weekend). If anyone has something they would be willing to present, please reply to the list.

I personally don't have a conflict, but If there is a consensus that the holiday weekend interferes, we can move the metting forward or backward by a week.

Let the list know your thoughts.

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From joelmeulenberg at attbi.com  Sat Aug 10 00:00:44 2002
From: joelmeulenberg at attbi.com (Joel Meulenberg)
Date: Wed Aug  4 00:01:22 2004
Subject: Fw: Perl 1 Revitalized (fwd)
Message-ID: <008101c2402a$e244a9b0$6901a8c0@attbi.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd White" <tmwhite@merit.edu>
To: "Joel Meulenberg" <joelmeulenberg@attbi.com>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: Perl 1 Revitalized (fwd)


>
> Perl 1 Revitalized Jul 25, 2002
>
> The perl community is happy to announce the appointment of Michael Schwern
as
> the new head of maintenance for Perl 1, the original version of perl.
Michael
> comes to us with considerable experience both in testing and QA, as well
as
> managing scattered groups of programmers. His skills should stand him in
good
> stead heading the maintenance of this long-neglected version of perl.
>
> First released in 1988, this version of the software has fallen into an
> unfortunate slump with the release of versions 2, 3, 4, and 5 of perl,
> derivative languages such as Python and Ruby. "We hope to revitalize the
perl 1
> community, which has long been scoffed at by the users of more recent,
'better'
> versions of perl."
>
> This version of perl has many advantages over its far more bloated modern
> rivals. The source kit is barely 1% the size of the current language
> distributions, and the resulting executable is also much smaller, making
it
> ideal for embedded use. The small source footprint allows for easy
auditing of
> the code. It's also remarkably fast, so much so that you can often
completely
> rebuild it from scratch and run your program in the same time it takes
newer,
> more "feature-full", languages to just compile your program.
>
> News and additional information will be available on the official Perl 1
site,
> http://dev.perl.org/perl1/, including pointers to the developer mailing
list,
> perl1-porters.



From ed at pcr7.pcr.com  Fri Aug 30 09:24:22 2002
From: ed at pcr7.pcr.com (Ed Eddington)
Date: Wed Aug  4 00:01:22 2004
Subject: Bad Java!
Message-ID: <01C2500F.690BAEA0@uranus.pcr.com>

Here's a governement website "Terms and Conditions" disclaimer on the use of Java...

11. NOTE ON JAVA SUPPORT.  THE SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN 
    SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS WRITTEN IN JAVA. JAVA 
    TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND IS NOT DESIGNED, 
    MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE OR RESALE AS ONLINE 
    CONTROL EQUIPMENT IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS 
    REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE, SUCH AS IN THE 
    OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES,   AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION 
    OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, DIRECT 
    LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES, OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS, IN WHICH 
    THE FAILURE OF JAVA TECHNOLOGY COULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO 
    DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR 
    ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

In these instances, use Perl;