[oak perl] Introduction [misc.]

[George Woolley]

[This is part 3 (of 3) of my response to your intro.]

Steve,

meetings:
Well, our "regular" meeting place is in Alameda.
And I gather that's a trek for you.
I hope you make it there,
maybe in August.

link to website:
Thanks for the link to:
   http://foxglove.dnsalias.org/~sfink/
I was particularly interested in
* command-line vs. graphical interfaces
* the comic

perl 6:
pumpking -- kool. 
rules -- kool.
Perhaps, you'll be willing to share 
some of what you learned and experienced with that.

George

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 6:03 pm, Steve Fink wrote:
> ...
> 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. ...
>
> 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. ...
>
> And I won't be seeing any of you tonight because my sister-in-law is
> visiting.
> ...