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howardjp writes: "The Perl Mongers have announced that they are starting a new magazine called The Perl Review (not to be confused with the literary journal Pearl). Its first issue was published on 1 February in PDF-only format, but the article 'Extreme Publishing' describes the process by which they plan to expand. With The Perl Journal's future still somewhat in doubt, this is welcome news."
It was bought by CMP, the same folks behind Sysadmin, so things are very much stable. http://www.tpj.com
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I can see wealthy jewelry aficionados buying this magazine and wondering why there aren't any pictures of pearls, and why people keep misspelling "pearl".
-- Dan
inteligent writing is hard to find in general, and so this is very welcome news.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Yes, dear people, it's like that, who did not want to travel to the US sometimes and do it anally there? Indeed, everyone has played several times with this thought already.
Many may be deterred now by intensified controls at the airports before flights with US airlines. These would be extremely well suited for anyone wanting to benefit from hard anal sex during the flight.
You may also ask yourself now, what else the USians do, apart from having anal parties? Jaaa, they plug their US flags into their anuses! After that some of them have been astonished, why the stars are suddenly brown instead of white! Oh shit, the USians then cry, and launch a few F-16s to demonstrate they can also do it at supersonic speeds... and from behind!!
This inventor spirit is unique in the world and should be rewarded with a heavy load in the ass. But nevertheless, not here in Germany; why, such a ripped apart USian is a disturbance, and only available to people over 18. In the sales compartment behind the curtain, of course. For the real fanatics there is the same model also with a swastika, tattooed on the balls, if there still are some. And who hasn't experienced an anal orgasm yet? If not, dial into the Telekom network and ask behind the backdoor of the dragon around the corner!
Happy holidays, and keep your eggs warm, it's Easter time soon!
--hb
Take note of the contest at the end: convert a base 36 number to base 10 in an interesting way (ie, short, clever, etc). Sounds like an interesting challenge.
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I thought now that TPJ was a supplement to SysAdmin magazine, it's future wasn't so cloudy. I've only gotten one bundled issue so far but I think it's doing all right.
But another Perl mag is fine by me.
And I must say, Brian Foy's obsession with how his name is typeset gets old really fast.
I suspect that over time this effort will die and Perl.com will become the de facto route for publishing articles that perl users need to read.
You can't mention Perl anymore without someone saying, "You should be using Python instead" (the opposite is true, too, I guess). It seems to me that there is a much smaller Python community, for what is a rapidly growing userbase. There are few O'Reilly Python titles when compared to Perl (although that's not exactly suprising since Larry, you know, works there and stuff).
Is it merely that larger-scale Python stuff is under the average Perl user's radar, or is there just not a lot of Python "media"?
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
It's not just the folks behind Sysadmin, it's been folded into Sysadmin. And I was disappointed with the resulting magazine, at least what I've seen of it so far. It just didn't seem to have the depth and quality of the old TPJ. In fact, my sub is now up for renewal, and I decided not to spend the money for another year -- even though I'm not at all a penny-pincher and subscribe to *lots* of magazines and for-fee services. I just didn't see it providing any real value in its current form.
"Biped! Good cranial development. Evidently considerable human ancestry."
This magazine should be pretty easy to write for! I can code in perl with one step:
:)
/dev/urand > perlmagazine.txt
Since it has been folded into SysAdmin, TPJ has pretty much sucked. 2 or 3 articles, once every 3 months is really sad. I appreciate what Jon Orwant and others have done, but TPJ is not what it used to be.
I wish Perl Mongers success with their efforts.
I would like to have a magazine covering
more scripting languages. besides Perl and Python
it should also focus on Ruby, my favourite langauge. Ruby is becoming more and more popular and I think it has the potential to become the Number 1 scripting language within the next 5 years. and Perl and Python will also continue to grow. (the losers will be C/C++ and maybe also Java/C# because they are not very productive languages as are most languages which are compiled seperately). so a magazin covering Ruby, Perl, Python and maybe PHP would be a great thing for many programmers out there.
is that it does not use my favorite ASCII character nearly enough "~".
this is why am i creating a fork off of perl where the only valid variable name, function name or module name is "~".
Not freebies that are sent to you "for a limited time only" for the last 2+ years. Actually bought from a shop.
For me its... well not since the internet ramped up from a technical articles perspective about 5 years ago. Why destroy trees or have a big "lump" every month when an incremental approach gets you back to the site every day or so, gives you the ability to search for old articles.
PDF ? Paper ? Lets be radical, join the 1990s and USE A WEBSITE.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
See the perl golf tournament on the base 36 problem at perlmonks.org.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
Well, there's a left-turning one encoded in the Chinese character blocks: U+534D, which is 21325 in decimal ( or ). I don't know whether there's a right-turning one.
Look at Larry Wall's Apocalypse articles. They are at least as long as the Cozens article.
"scripting languages" ??
Shell languages are scripting. Perl and Python are not.
"C/C++...Java...not very productive" ??
Can I have your dealer's pager number. I need some crack too.
this just in The Perl REview has been sited to be horribly illegible and incoherent due to the fact that it was written by a bunch of perl hackers
*groan* I hate pdf files. Could they offer it as a Perl script that I can download and execute? Now that would be cool!
Maybe create a module:
use Perl::Review;
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How the hell can this have been overrated?! It was -1 at the time of moderation!!!