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.

Comments

WHEW! TPJ's comming back...

[strredwolf]

Whew. That means we PerlMonks don't have to create our own parish newspaper... just yet...

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Re:Hope current subscription info survives

[elmegil]

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.

This is Great News

[Lumpy]

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.

Various Jon Orwant Resources (Who is this guy?)

[webword]

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.)

Alright jon boy!

[Nohea]

Waiting for issue #20!

If it doesn't come out soon, i will start throwing cups at the wall!

Subscription Model

[Eharley]

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.

Re:screw perl, go python

[MadCow42]

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 !!!

MadCow.

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