[Kc] We Are Iron Man

ironicface at earthlink.net ironicface at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 24 12:06:39 PDT 2009


In my experience, having a project, especially one that needs to be done,
is vastly more motivating.
There is a certain lack of being able to select objectives when there are no parameters.

Teal

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>I'm forever-trying to get myself to just sit and read "Learning Perl" in 
>its entirety, but keep getting bored or distracted.  A blog for likeminded 
>people (impatient?) may be helpful for new users that don't quite learn in 
>the same way as most others.
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>I recently asked a friend and collegue how he got into a language (Cobol; 
>sorry if that's supposed to be all-caps...).  He said that the trick was 
>to come up with things he wanted to do; projects, etc...
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>Does anyone else out there fall into this same kind of category?  I guess 
>that would be the one where you're already pretty smart when it comes to 
>technology and how it interoperates, but are simply too impatient to read 
>through 1077 pages (that's the length of my "Core Python Programming" 
>book).
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>...or is it just simple laziness on behalf of the learner?
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>After going back and re-reading the original message real quick, methinks 
>that this would fall under the "Ugly" category...
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>Blah...
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>brant williams
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>On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Aaron Leonard wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:51:45 -0500
>> From: Aaron Leonard <aachleon at gmail.com>
>> To: Garrett Goebel <ggoebel at goebel.ws>
>> Cc: kc at pm.org
>> Subject: Re: [Kc] We Are Iron Man
>> 
>> I hadn't heard of it, but have thought for years now that Perl is way short
>> on good blogs.  Or even poor blogs for that matter.  I follow about 30
>> Oracle blogs and 10 sysadmin blogs.  The only Perl blog I ever liked hasn't
>> been updated in a long, long time...  Soooo, something coming from this
>> challenge would be super-refreshing to see.
>>
>> Aaron
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>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Garrett Goebel <ggoebel at goebel.ws> wrote:
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>>> Don't know how many of you have read Matt Trout's "We Are Iron Man"
>>> challenge. In short, it is a call for Perl programmers to get blogging
>>> and sharing their Perl experience: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
>>>
>>> I've been meaning to dig back into Perl and Perl6. So what the hell? Why
>>> not?
>>>
>>> http://ergoletterbag.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Garrett
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