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The Perl Journal Returns
pudge writes: "The Perl Journal is back in the hands of Jon Orwant, after a sorrowful chapter in the hands of EarthWeb. No details available yet, just the good news. He is now accepting article proposals for future issues, and Issue #20 will be printed and mailed soon." It's cool to see something decent being revived in a month when it seems like many companies are either failing or scaling back.
According to the article, he is going to try to get the archives back up in May. I say more power to him. I subscribed for a single article (talking to the Com port in Windows) and stayed for the rest. Plus this way I can write off the subscription as a business expense. :)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I read the internet for the articles.
Whew. That means we PerlMonks don't have to create our own parish newspaper... just yet...
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You missed a couple of biggies:
There was a post in comp.lang.python that was in "Kanji" (double-byte asian font). It looked like garbage to most people. There was a great reply to it though:
I think you want comp.lang.perl !!!
Why are English-speakers so insecure that they have to make snide comments whenever another language is used? The Internet isn't just the playground of American students anymore, you know.
I specifically wrote Mr. Orwant about this question (are subscriptions prior to the collapse going to be honored) and his reply was yes, he intends to honor them. I got the reply in nothing flat, no less. Whether there are "no errors" in the transfer of information may still be an open question, but he intends to do The Right Thing, and more power to him.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
I was sure that TPJ was doomed and the company just kept the subscribers money. (I.E. no communication to us subscribers as to if we were going to get our issues or refunds or whatever.)
I really hope I get my next issue, then I'll re-up for another subscription. (I.E. If I see what's left of my current subscription then I'll reward their ressurection with a renewal.. fair?)
in a sea of "journals" that have crap content and a difficulty rating of ZERO,, TPJ proved to be a professional and expert's journal. I cant wait.
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There was a post in comp.lang.python that was in "Kanji" (double-byte asian font).
<nitpick> Actually, it's a double-byte Japanese font. Even if Chinese word for the letters used the same characters, they would not read them the same way, as pronounciation of the words differ between Japanese and Chinese. </nitpick>
Centuries of evolution in both Japan and China make the two languages dramatically different, you know :-P.
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Jon Orwant Search on Slashdot...
Jon Orwant -- 2 O'Reilly Network Articles
Jon Orwant and The Real Perl Keyboard -- Fuzzy picture of Jon against a fuzzy background. Mildly humorous.
Good Picture of Jon Orwant
Mastering Algorithms with Perl -- "Topics covered: Perl data types, Big-O notation, data structures, queues, deques, linked lists, binary trees, sorting and searching algorithms, game and dynamic programming, sets and multisets, matrices and graphs, string matching and parsing, 2-D geometry, number systems, cryptography (including DES and RSA), probability, statistics, and numerical analysis." (Comments: Written by Jon Orwant. The link points to the evil Amazon.com)
Magnetic Perl kits -- "I just recieved this note from Jon Orwant (editor of The Perl Journal).You can order magnetic perl poetry kits from the Journal now." (Comments: This is a somewhat interesting 1998 posting to MacPerl.)
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which part of "double-byte asian font" did you take to mean "chinese"? Centuries of evolution in English make the two words dramatically different, you know :-P.
Waiting for issue #20!
If it doesn't come out soon, i will start throwing cups at the wall!
Does anyone care to speculate how the subscribers for the EarthWeb TPJ will be handled?
When I subscribed it was because I wanted online copies of the journal. I paid for that service. Is this service still going to be available to me? Is the general public going to have access to the journal online?
Do you think this is a good idea? Yeah, it gets the journal out. And yeah, advertising could probably pay the bills. But there are a bunch of people who I speculate will be pissed because they paid for a service when they really didn't have to.
I think you want comp.lang.perl !!!
MadCow.
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I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
I have always been delighted by the high quality of articles in TPJ. Anyone remember "Mathematical Recreations" -> "Metamagical Themas" -> "Computer Recreations"? TPJ used to read like that; every issue. (The reason I subscribed was because of a fascinating article on voting methods, which explains the US Republican/Democratic monopoly is due to our one-vote, winner-take-all voting system).
And my praise has nothing to due with the fact that they published one of my one liners! Perl Magic Cards:
I knew TPJ had sold out when they published a one-liner on how to convert to Swatch's Internet Beats, which is really a trivial varient of GMT but with a different meridian, to coincide with Swatch's world HQ in Switzerland. It reaked of a "product placement": advertising masquerding as editorial.
Anyway, Welcome back Jon! Don't get greedy this time, huh?
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