[sf-perl] Hello everyone!

[Joseph Brenner]

Ah, okay, good.  No rush on the planning then.  (You'd be surprised how
many people show up in SF for two days and don't think to contact us until
they're already here).

I've been thinking that maybe we should try starting off the new year with
lightning talks (end of January, early February?)...

I thought SNOBOL sounded really cool back when I was a young fool reading
about computer languages I had no access to... though I have a feeling
perl4 was more like SNOBOL than perl5.

> Not to argue, but I think problems with prose and structure had more
> to do with my lack of experience writing than with haste.

I think a real professional would blame it on the copy editors.


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:

> I'm in Phoenix over Christmas but haven't booked Amtrak yet.  I should
> be here until Dec 21st.  Then I'll be back again some time after
> Christmas, and likely vaguely around for a year or two.  How's that
> for vague plans?
>
> As for topics, I like to offer a menu.  I did an Everything Perl Has,
> It Stole From SNOBOL talk for Frozen Perl a while back.  It's half
> serious and hasn't been done outside of there.  I have a joke
> Lightning Talk I haven't given yet (wasn't approved), More Continuous
> than Continuous Integration.  I'm always grateful for a chance to
> re-attempt a talk I butchered, such as Building Applications using
> WebGUI 8 as an Application Framework (or whatever its actual title
> was) or Perl Games.  I could also talk about the tech behind the Tempe
> Bike Count and related research.
>
> Probably won't make it to Silicon Valley before Christmas but good to
> know about it.
>
> Hi Mike!  Good to hear from you.  Long time since Phoenix.PM.
>
> Hi Joseph!  Thank you for the review way back then =)  Any interest at
> all is nice.
>
> Not to argue, but I think problems with prose and structure had more
> to do with my lack of experience writing than with haste.  Or
> alternatively, maybe the nth re-write of the chapters became hastily.
> As far as I'm concerned, the only thing I definitively did right was
> correctly predict that Perl 6 was a ways off and would change a lot
> before it came out, and refuse to write a straight up Perl 6 book.
> Cynicism won that round.  Also, I guess my half-baked Perl 6 examples
> became some of the early Pugs unit tests, which is neat.
>
> -s
>
>
> On 11/30/15, Joseph Brenner <doomvox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Depends on when Scott's around, don't you think?  I was thinking if he's
> in
> > town for a few weeks we might do a regular talk type thing some time next
> > week (but not on Dec 9, I hope, I'm going to be at the Rick Prellinger
> deal
> > at the Castro).
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Fred Moyer <fred at redhotpenguin.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> It is the holiday season, so perhaps we could do our annual-ish
> >> holiday social, and bundle this in.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Joseph Brenner <doomvox at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Well, hollowdaze madness doesn't help, but the first question is what
> >> > do
> >> you
> >> > feel like talking about, and the second is when are you available?
> >> >
> >> > I see that some guy named Joseph Brenner reviewed your book "Perl 6
> >> > Now"
> >> > some years back:
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.news.slashdot.org/story/05/08/16/0511217/perl-6-now-by-scott-walters
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi everyone,
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm in town for a while so I thought I'd say hi.  I don't see any
> >> >> meetings scheduled on meetup.  If the blocker is finding someone to
> >> >> present, I'd be happy to take that bullet.  More likely, the blocker
> >> >> is holiday craziness, in which case I'll see you all next major
> >> >> version.
> >> >>
> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >> -scott
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