[oak perl] Introduction

[M. Lewis]

Hi David. Nice to meet up with you. You sound like my kind of guy. If
you check the archives, my intro is there a few days ago. Basically,
primarily Linux, Sys Admin, use Perl for parsing logs, making my life
easier. I don't know OO either.

Mike
<Happy Turkey day to all>

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:43, David Alban wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> At 2002/11/24/21:15 -0800 George Woolley <georgepw at metaart.org> wrote:
> >     * introduce yourself
> 
> David Alban
> unix sysadmin, tools guy
> Been doing perl for four years, but not as primary job responsibility.
>   I use perl mostly for unix tools: general and sysadmin.  Did then
>   in #!/bin/sh before discovering perl.
> Very comfortable with perl, but don't know web/cgi or object oriented.
> Love complex data structures in perl (but again, don't know oo).
> Latest perl project:  Log::Monkey
>                       <http://www.gerasimov.net/~alban/jac/Log::Monkey.html>
> Live on the peninsula
> Attend baylisa, sf-perl, kabuki-west; looking to attend this group
> Sing in two different choral groups (sang at San Quentin on Halloween)
> Co-founder of sig-beer-west (see .sig below)
> Currently reading:  _Across_Realtime_ by Vernor Vinge, an awesome sci-fi
>   author
> Current mp3 playing:  Zappa's cover of Whipping Post from "Them or Us"
> Movie I'd like to see soon:  Solaris
> Movie I'd like to see soon:  the new ST Next Generation flick
> Movie I wish would freakin' hurry up and get released: Matrix 2
> Movie question: Why did Bab 5 never have any movie theater movie releases?
> Machines at home:
>   . intel p133 running suse linux (seven years old and going strong! :-)
>                                   [knock on wood]
>   . thinkpad running suse linux
>   . indy running irix 6.2
>   . ultra 30 running solaris 9
>   . G3 tower running mac os 9.2.1
> Unemployed for a while (see .sig below)
> Wonder whether we should be adding the concept of checks-and-balances
>   to the endangered species list.
> 
> >     * ask a question about Perl
> 
> What are all of those funny punctuation marks for?
> 
> >     * make a suggestion about the group
> 
> Could someone do a presentation that is an introduction to object
> oriented perl programming?
> 
> >     * do something else
> 
> O.K.  May I request that folks make a reasonable attempt to trim the
> quoted material in their posts?  There was one thread in which each
> message in the thread contained the entire thread.  To something like
> ten levels of quoting.  
> 
> O.K.  That's me.  You're next... :-)
> 
> David
> -- 
> Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
>                                  ***
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