[TPI News] April 07, 1999
Bill Jones
bill at fccj.org
Thu Apr 8 08:04:57 CDT 1999
On the Jax.PM jacksonville-pm-list 1.94.4;
"Bill Jones" <bill at fccj.org> wrote -
FYI to Jax PM members: Below is the epitaph of The Perl Institute.
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> 07 April 1999
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> Sorry About This [Other]
> We've been less than diligent lately in providing the news
> every day. Well, we won't make excuses, we are just really
> busy.
>
> Perl Institute Board Votes to Dissolve [Institute]
> On March 1, 1999, the Board of Directors of The Perl Institute
> unanimously voted to dissolve The Perl Institute.
>
> The specific reasons why have not yet been made public, as The
> Perl News currently only has access to the meeting minutes,
> which will be posted on [0]www.perl.org. However, the minutes
> do speak to the Institute being ineffectual: Larry Wall
> discussed at the meeting the differences between "top-down" and
> "bottom-up" development, and that he cited the Institute as an
> attempt at a "top-down" approach, while Perl culture mandates a
> "bottom-up" approach.
>
> The minutes note that the Institute has no known outstanding
> debts. The Perl Institute's assets, including the domain names
> perl.org and cpan.org, are to be gifted to [1]Perl Mongers. It
> is unclear whether, if Perl Mongers does receive these assets,
> it will continue to use those domains to provide some or all of
> the services TPI currently provides (such as Perl News, bug
> tracking, mailing lists, CPAN Testers, and access to CPAN
> itself) to the Perl community.
>
> What is clear is that in some way or another, most or all of
> these services will continue somewhere. Perl News will
> continute mostly unaffected, as will CPAN Testers, and access
> to CPAN will, if all else fails, still be available through
> dozens of other sites around the world.
>
> The minutes mention that Wall and Randal Schwartz will post a
> press release on perl.org. When it is posted, it will be
> mentioned in Perl News, and any other information we receive
> will be passed along too, so watch this space.
>
> INTERCAL to Perl Compiler Released [Links]
> From the same people who brought us [2]dd-sh (the one true
> programming language) and [3]The Perl Filesystem now comes
> CLC-INTERCAL, a INTERCAL interpreter implemented entirely in
> Perl.
>
> Released on April 1, CLC-INTERCAL, consists of the module
> Language::INTERCAL and supporting modules for EBCDIC and Baudot
> code processing. It was developed on Perl 5.004 but should run
> on versions 5.002 and above. Intercal compilers can be embedded
> in and integrated into other applications; preliminary work on
> the INTERCAL ORB is now in progress. See the [4]Assurdo web
> site for more information.
>
>
> All You Mongers Show Your Faces [User Groups]
> * Bakersfield.pm (Bakersfield, CA) <[5]lalvey at ffguide.com>
> * CGI.pm (Cape Girardeau, MO) <[6]mike808 at mo.net>
> * Cleveland.pm (Cleveland, OH) <[7]colossus at lightstream.net>
> * PalmCoast.pm (Palm Coast, FL) <[8]hpepper at mindspring.com>
> * SantaMaria.pm (Santa Maria, CA)
> <[9]perlgroup at one-click.com>
> * SantaMonica.pm (Santa Monica, CA) <[10]adam at cnation.com>
> * Ottawa.pm (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)
> <[11]spurkis at engsoc.carleton.ca>
> * Manila.pm (Manila, Philippines) <[12]fred at skyinet.net>
> * Braga.pm (Braga, Portugal) <[13]tiago at um.geira.pt>
> * Koebenhavn.pm (Koebenhavn, Denmark) <[14]ask at netcetera.dk>
> * Leipzig.pm (Leipzig, Germany) <[15]hoehne at hotpop.com>
> * Pacos-de-Ferreira.pm (Pacos de Ferreira, Portugal)
> <[16]phantom at mobile.8m.com>
> * Zurich.pm (Zurich, Switzerland) <[17]wesi at acm.org>
> Codez-vous francais? [Links]
>
> We were alerted to a [18]project to translate the Perl docs to
> French, and thought, hey, we could have translated most of
> [19]perlhist!
>
> It is only conjecture, as I'm many years removed from my high
> school French classes, but I imagine they would accept help
> from like-minded (and like-languaged) individuals.
>
>
> New Modules 2-6 April 1999 [Module News]
> * [20]Apache-ASP-0.09_1
> * [21]Apache-DB-0.03
> * [22]Apache-Session-0.99.8
> * [23]CGI-SpeedyCGI-1.6
> * [24]Crypt-HCE_MD5-0.40
> * [24]Crypt-HCE_SHA-0.40
> * [25]Event-0.34 -- Perl event loop
> * [26]File-chmod-0.20
> * [27]Filesys-Statvfs_Df-0.56
> * [28]Fortune-0.1
> * [29]Geo-WeatherNOAA-4.33 -- Current/forecast weather from
> NOAA
> * [30]Getopt-EvaP-2.3.4 -- Long/short options, multilevel
> help
> * [31]Metadata-0.23
> * [32]Net-Traceroute-0.9
> * [33]ORAC-DBA-0.05
> * [34]Object-Persistence-0.34
> * [35]Parse-Yapp-0.30 -- Generates OO LALR parser modules
> * [36]PerlMagick-4.22
> * [37]PerlQt-2.002
> * [38]Pod-DocBook-0.05
> * [39]PostScript-EPSF-0.01
> * [40]SQL-Statement-0.1012 -- Small SQL parser and engine
> * [41]ShadowHash-0.05
> * [40]Text-CSV_XS-0.18 -- Fast 8bit clean version of
> Text::CSV
> * [42]Text-Merge-0.24
> * [30]Tie-Watch-1.0 -- Watch variables, run code when
> read/written
> * [43]Tk-Clock-0.05
> * [44]Tk-Multi-1.002
> * [45]Tk-TIFF-0.04
> * [46]Tk800.014
> * [47]XML-Parser-2.22
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> References:
> 0. http://www.perl.org/
> 1. http://www.pm.org/
> 2. http://dd-sh.assurdo.com/
> 3. http://dd-sh.assurdo.com/perlfs/
> 4. http://www.assurdo.com/
> 5. mailto:lalvey at ffguide.com
> 6. mailto:mike808 at mo.net
> 7. mailto:colossus at lightstream.net
> 8. mailto:hpepper at mindspring.com
> 9. mailto:perlgroup at one-click.com
> 10. mailto:adam at cnation.com
> 11. mailto:spurkis at engsoc.carleton.ca
> 12. mailto:fred at skyinet.net
> 13. mailto:tiago at um.geira.pt
> 14. mailto:ask at netcetera.dk
> 15. mailto:hoehne at hotpop.com
> 16. mailto:phantom at mobile.8m.com
> 17. mailto:wesi at acm.org
> 18. http://www.enstimac.fr/~gaborit/Perl/
> 19. http://www.enstimac.fr/~gaborit/Perl/perlhist.html
> 20. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHAMAS/
> 21. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/DOUGM/
> 22. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JBAKER/
> 23. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/H/HO/HORROCKS/
> 24. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/E/EE/EESTABROO/
> 25. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/
> 26. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/P/PI/PINYAN/
> 27. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/I/IG/IGUTHRIE/
> 28. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GWARD/
> 29. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/MSOLOMON/
> 30. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/LUSOL/
> 31. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/D/DJ/DJBECKETT/
> 32. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/H/HA/HAG/
> 33. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDYDUNC/
> 34. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/V/VI/VIPUL/
> 35. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/F/FD/FDESAR/
> 36. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JCRISTY/
> 37. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/AWIN/
> 38. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/ADESC/
> 39. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GAAS/
> 40. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED/
> 41. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/RRA/
> 42. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHARRIS/
> 43. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
> 44. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/DDUMONT/
> 45. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/SREZIC/
> 46. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/NI-S/
> 47. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/C/CO/COOPERCL/
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