[oak perl] Introduction
Adrien Lamothe
alamozzz at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 13 22:05:13 CDT 2004
I recall at least several people introducing
themselves on the list. We did have a problem with the
listserver a few months ago, perhaps we lost some
posts.
--- Steve Fink <sfink at reactrix.com> wrote:
> George Woolley suggested to me that many times
> newcomers introduce
> themselves to the list.
>
> And from reading through the archives, I can see
> that he's a bald-faced
> liar. I didn't see anyone else doing that.
>
> Or maybe I just didn't read enough. Are the
> introductions specifically
> archived anywhere? I guess I'll go ahead anyway.
>
> My name is Steve Fink. I've heard about PerlMongers
> for some time, but
> only recently got around to looking for a nearby one
> to go to. I've now
> attended the Silicon Valley PM a grand total of one
> time, and enjoyed
> it. Now I'm looking for a more active group, even if
> I have to drive a
> bit farther. What I liked about svpm was getting
> exposed to people who
> use and learn Perl in very different ways than I do.
> I hang out on
> perlmonks.org a fair amount, but that's a typically
> digital age-ish
> self-selected environment: I only look at nodes that
> are relevant and
> similar to the sorts of problems I work on all the
> time, so don't get a
> very good feel for what the other 99.4% of the
> community is thinking about.
>
> Anyway, back to my bio. Um...
> <http://foxglove.dnsalias.org/~sfink/>.
> But that's too much bother, so:
>
> I've been using Perl for 11 years, addicted for 8. I
> started out mostly
> using it for text munging as a part of other
> projects, then started
> using it a little for system administrationy stuff,
> then for entire
> applications, graphical and otherwise. After that I
> started using it for
> web development (LAMP stuff), and currently have it
> embedded into a
> real-time interactive graphics engine that you may
> have seen at the
> Metreon, Great Mall, or NikeTown. Along the way I've
> written a few
> modules (eg Math::Calc::Units), miserably failed to
> take over
> maintainership of another module (CGI::Test), did a
> fair amount of early
> development work on Parrot (I was the 0.0.8-0.0.11
> release pumpking),
> and am now infrequently working on the prototype
> Perl6 compiler
> (supposedly focusing on the rule engine but in
> reality spending almost
> all of my time on the compiler infrastructure so
> that I can get to the
> interesting bits of the rule engine.)
>
> I like Perl because it allows me to very directly
> and quickly express in
> code the things that I want to do, and because it
> makes me feel like an
> idiot no matter how much of it I know. I also like
> talking to other
> people about Perl because they make me feel
> irrelevant -- my experience
> and ways of doing things always end up being
> ridiculously mismatched to
> what those other people actually care about. One of
> the joys of TMTOWTDI.
>
> And I won't be seeing any of you tonight because my
> sister-in-law is
> visiting.
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