[Princeton-pm] July 13th Meeting of the Princeton Perl Monks

[Phil Southard]

Hello fellow Princeton Perl Monks,

Happy Monday!

Just wanted to give a short summary of our July 13th meeting at the Freehold
Barnes and Noble.  I tried to be as accurate as possible with my comments.
Please feel free to correct this email.

Attendees were:

Jerry D. Hedden
Jeff Pinyan
Arthur Goldstein
Joe Cullin
Phil Southard

Introductions were made by discussing were each member works, how he uses
Perl, and comments on 2 questions.

Question 1. Is Perl on the decline on incline?
Question 2.  Do you use testing modules?

Next Meeting:

Jeff Pinyan volunteered to see if his company would host our August meeting
where Jerry Hedden will present is paper on the InsideOut module.

Minutes:

Jeff Pinyan works for IntegraChain preparing pharmaceutical market data.  He
has written 4 modules for CPAN.  Jeff hopes his company will hire Q&A and
Unit Testers.  He thinks that PHP is pushing Perl out of the Internet Space.

Jerry Hedden works for Bloomberg LP.  He uses Perl to process financial data
and prepare web pages.  Jerry too has written 4 modules for CPAN and was
planning to present a paper on the InsideOut module in Chicago, but a car
accident impeded his trip to Chicago. Lucky for Jerry he is ok and is eager
to share his paper with us at the next PM meeting.  Jerry likes command line
interfaces vs GUI interfaces and is now the keeper of several Thread process
modules.

Arthur Goldstein was "sold to IBM by ATT" where he is a lead developer and
database manager.  Arthur has many ideas for CPAN and looks to contribute in
the future.  Arthur thinks that JavaScript is the language of the future.

Joe Cullin works for Unipress in Edison developing web based help desk
applications.  Unipress has 8 full time Perl programmers.  Joe and his team
ship Perl application to there customers.  Joe thinks PHP is good for web
page development if one has no background in programming and thinks that PHP
could be more secure than Perl for web page development, at least easier for
Admins to manage.

Phil Southard works for PDS consulting assisting companies in bring ASIC and
FPGA designs to market.  Phil is new to Perl and is using Perl to translate
test vectors from one text format to another for his ASIC customer.  Phil
likes Perl and is interested in database interfaces and hopes that his new
found skill set will continue to support his consulting efforts.

That's all folks!

Phil Southard, aka, OrangePerl