[oak perl] Introduction

[Adrien Lamothe]

I recall at least several people introducing
themselves on the list. We did have a problem with the
listserver a few months ago, perhaps we lost some
posts.


--- Steve Fink <sfink at reactrix.com> wrote:
> George Woolley suggested to me that many times
> newcomers introduce 
> themselves to the list.
> 
> And from reading through the archives, I can see
> that he's a bald-faced 
> liar. I didn't see anyone else doing that.
> 
> Or maybe I just didn't read enough. Are the
> introductions specifically 
> archived anywhere? I guess I'll go ahead anyway.
> 
> My name is Steve Fink. I've heard about PerlMongers
> for some time, but 
> only recently got around to looking for a nearby one
> to go to. I've now 
> attended the Silicon Valley PM a grand total of one
> time, and enjoyed 
> it. Now I'm looking for a more active group, even if
> I have to drive a 
> bit farther. What I liked about svpm was getting
> exposed to people who 
> use and learn Perl in very different ways than I do.
> I hang out on 
> perlmonks.org a fair amount, but that's a typically
> digital age-ish 
> self-selected environment: I only look at nodes that
> are relevant and 
> similar to the sorts of problems I work on all the
> time, so don't get a 
> very good feel for what the other 99.4% of the
> community is thinking about.
> 
> Anyway, back to my bio. Um...
> <http://foxglove.dnsalias.org/~sfink/>. 
> But that's too much bother, so:
> 
> I've been using Perl for 11 years, addicted for 8. I
> started out mostly 
> using it for text munging as a part of other
> projects, then started 
> using it a little for system administrationy stuff,
> then for entire 
> applications, graphical and otherwise. After that I
> started using it for 
> web development (LAMP stuff), and currently have it
> embedded into a 
> real-time interactive graphics engine that you may
> have seen at the 
> Metreon, Great Mall, or NikeTown. Along the way I've
> written a few 
> modules (eg Math::Calc::Units), miserably failed to
> take over 
> maintainership of another module (CGI::Test), did a
> fair amount of early 
> development work on Parrot (I was the 0.0.8-0.0.11
> release pumpking), 
> and am now infrequently working on the prototype
> Perl6 compiler 
> (supposedly focusing on the rule engine but in
> reality spending almost 
> all of my time on the compiler infrastructure so
> that I can get to the 
> interesting bits of the rule engine.)
> 
> I like Perl because it allows me to very directly
> and quickly express in 
> code the things that I want to do, and because it
> makes me feel like an 
> idiot no matter how much of it I know. I also like
> talking to other 
> people about Perl because they make me feel
> irrelevant -- my experience 
> and ways of doing things always end up being
> ridiculously mismatched to 
> what those other people actually care about. One of
> the joys of TMTOWTDI.
> 
> And I won't be seeing any of you tonight because my
> sister-in-law is 
> visiting.
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