SPUG: Thanks, Evolution, & finding Perl work

[Kevin Watt]

Perhaps we should look into forming some sort of co-op or groups to compete
for contracts on the many web-based sites designed for this (of which the
urls I can't find right now... perhaps someone can remember them).

I agree about your village earth comment :)  And yet, I still remain
confused on what perls target growth is.  It strikes me that the push
doesn't seem to be to replace every other language out there - I would be
interested to hear other's thoughts on this matter, though.  Personally, I
know I get frustrated struggling with a language thats so slow to code in,
compared to perl.  Contrasting with that, I was at the IJCAI conference on
artificial intelligence at the convention center today, and got into a
discussion with someone about how I hoped to use perl for artifical
intelligence purposes.  He countered that perl isn't the best language for
the job because it is hard to maintain when the project gets large (which I
have certainly had problems with in the past).  However, I feel that while
perl's many options let you be lazy if you want to, you can certainly
structure things (as with OOP) such that perl does scale well...  Anyways,
I'd be interested in others' opinions on the matter.

Ciao All,
Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of
Andrew Sweger
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 1:16 AM
To: Seattle Perl Users Group
Subject: SPUG: Thanks, Evolution, & finding Perl work


I just want to thank all the folks that helped this evening with the setup
and take down for the meeting. Especially John, Alyssa, and C.J., Thank
you. That was a great presentation, Damian. Thank you again. I'm sure I
can hand compile just about any bit of Perl code now.

To all my friends out there that thought the weather was too nice today or
felt they had to work or had to wait for the DSL technician to call back,
tsk tsk. How can you live with the regret? :)

The post-meeting socializing was great. I am more convinced than ever that
things like Perl and Open Source and especially the *people* that are
involved will have a deep influence on this village Earth. I do sympathize
with Dave Cross' (of London.pm) essay to keep the newbies and wannabies
out. But I think that spreading our ideas and values to enough people
(critical mass) will bring about profound changes in the world. It's time
for Earth to evolve.

There seem to be a few folks looking for work. I'd like to propose a topic
for an upcoming regular SPUG meeting. What's the level of interest for a
meeting on how to find your next Perl job? What would make a good meeting
format for this topic? What special guest(s) would be useful?

--
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.




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