Wellington Perl Mongers Meeting in 3 Weeks

[Grant McLean]

Hi Mongers

That time is rapidly approaching once more ...

  Meeting:    Wellington Perl Mongers
  Start Time: Wednesday 5 July 2000, 5:30 PM
  Location:   The Web Limited
              Level 8, 86 Lambton Quay

Nobody has currently committed to a presentation.  

One topic which was suggested last time was 'Programming for 
Portability'.  Anyone like to volunteer to pick this up and run
with it?  (I could help if someone wanted to take the lead).

I would like to volunteer to talk on using DBI (the Perl Database
Interface).  If there are DBI topics you'd like to see covered, let
me know.

Any other offers?


If you know of someone who's may be interested in attending but is
not on the mailing list, forward them this message and they can
find list subscription details at: http://wellington.pm.org/


Finally, I'd like to leave you with this quote from Larry Rosler
(another Perl Hacker), bemoaning what he refers to as 'evaporating 
expectations of software quality' in an interview on www.perl.com
( http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/06/rosler.html ):

   1980's paradigm: If it's worth implementing once, 
                    it's worth implementing twice.
   1990's paradigm: Ship the prototype!
   2000's paradigm: Ship the idea!

Happy monging
Grant

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