[rochester-pm-list] [Fwd: www.perl.com: In Defense of Coding Standards]

[Brian Mathis]

Got this in the mail.  There's a bunch of cool stuff in it.  I thought
you might be interested.

Brian Mathis


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Big Changes Afoot at www.perl.com.

Since our last newsletter, we have hired well-known perl expert 
Mark-Jason Dominus as the new Managing Editor of www.perl.com.  
Mark is probably best-known for his articles for the Perl Journal, 
and is also the author of the 'perlreftut' man page and the 
popular Text::Template and Memoize perl modules.  

Mark will be responsible for composing the newsletter, for
contributing articles and other new content, and for contracting 
other authors to write for the site.  We now welcome Mark to his 
first newsletter...

                 *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *

Hello, perl.com subscribers.  Welcome.

We've been out of touch for a long time, but the site hasn't 
stopped moving forward.  It's taken me a while to get worked into 
the new job, so change is gradual, but I hope pervasive.  We will 
be updating the articles and other content on the web site more 
frequently.  Since I've become managing editor, we have had a 
variety of new articles, some technical, some less so:

* Adam Turoff, Perl Mongers founder, writes about how Perl
  Mongers user groups can use Perl to show the slides for a
  talk in several locations simultaneously.

 
http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/12/virtual-presentations.html?wwwrrr_20000112.txt

* Kirrily 'Skud' Robert talks about her experiences 
  developing coding standards for her Perl programmers.

 
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/CodingStandards.html?wwwrrr_20000112.txt

* I've contributed an update to Tom Christiansen's 1996
  article on 'The Sins of Perl,' describing the worst 
  features of Perl and how they're being addressed in 
  newer versions. 

  http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/11/sins.html?wwwrrr_20000112.txt

Coming up, we have 'Ten Perl Myths' by Simon Cozens, an article 
on RSS and free portal software by well-known MacPerl expert 
Chris Nandor, and an article about how to become a Perl hero 
without hacking on the Perl internals.  If you think you'd be 
interested in writing an article for www.perl.com, please mail 
me at mjd-perlcom-submissions at plover.com.

Also new is my weekly summary of activity on perl5-porters, the 
Perl developers' mailing list.  
See http://www.perl.com/pub/q/archivep5p for a menu.

Parts of the site that haven't been updated regularly will be 
updated again.  New features and surprises like the perl5-porters 
summary will transpire. I'm excited by this job and I hope you 
like the changes and the new material.

Thanks all.  I hope to be able to do a good job for you in the 
coming months.  

Mark-Jason Dominus
Managing Editor 
www.perl.com




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