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RIP: The Perl Journal

Posted by chrisd on from the tpj-was-good-for-perl dept.

mbadolato writes "I'm surprised this hasn't been reported yet. Over at use.perl they're reporting that when the current issue of SysAdmin comes out, this will be the last installment of The Perl Journal. It's a shame. TPJ originally was stopped as a stand-alone, but was then included into Sysadmin. Now that's going too. We all owe a big thanks to all the contributers, and to Jon Orwant, for providing us a great resource in TPJ over the years."

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  1. The Perl Review by mir · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Perl Review is exactly what you describe: a Perl journal, distributed only as PDF at the moment. The publishers hope to get it on paper one day, but they wanted to get it started., so the first 5 issues are already available.

    --
    Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. (Terry Pratchett)
  2. Re:Request it back to the community? by jukal · · Score: 5, Interesting
    this comp.lang.perl.misc posting by Jon Orwant who started the magazine together with Tom Christiansen in 1996, gives some insight how the dilemma started. This is just a short clip:

    "there's no shortage of content out there, and the magazine could easily go bimonthly and then monthly -- indeed, when EarthWeb acquired TPJ I had thought that was the plan.".

    Apparently, TPJ was just in wrong place at wrong time, and fall to a vacuum because of that.

  3. The Perl Journal story .. in Perl! by wackybrit · · Score: 5, Funny

    First the money went..

    $tpj =~ s/\$//g;

    So two magazines merged..

    $sysadmin .= $tpj;

    The advertising slump hit hard..

    $sysadmin =~ s/ActiveState/Make Money Fast!/g;

    And eventually they lost money merged together too.

    $sysadmin =~ s/\$//g;

    The arse totally fell out of the operation.

    $sysadmin =~ s/.//g;

    So they shut up shop.

    exit;

    --
    mogorific carpentry experiments
  4. O'Reilly to publish 'best of' anthologies by jacobito · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case you haven't heard, O'Reilly will be compiling and publishing three anthologies of the best articles from the Perl Journal:

    Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture
    Web, Graphics and Perl TK
    Computer Science and Perl Programming

    If you've never read TPJ before (or even if you have), be sure to grab one of these books when they come out. TPJ set a high standard of quality, with articles that were intelligent, entertaining, and usually a bit quirky.