On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Jeff Yoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:41:59 -0700
> From: Jeff Yoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Hasanuddin Tamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Perl FAQ A Day
>
> At 01:58 AM 6/12/01 +0700, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
> > > http://perl.faq-by-day.org/ .
> >
> >I've subscribed for a few weeks, and I like it. It's really great
> >to have such a resource. Thanks a lot for the effort. You do a
> >wonderful job.
>
> Actually, I do a pretty terrible job. :-) That's the 1997 version of the
> FAQ and I've been too lazy to update it with the FAQ from 5.6.x . And I
> don't use real mailing list software so people are often confused about how
> to get on or off of the list. And at least three months ago, Tom Phoenix
> suggested an improvement to the site whereby people could ask their own
> questions and he was convinced he could enlist the help of a few experts to
> provide good answers. This forum partially realizes that, I suppose. But
> other than a flash of a good idea 6 years ago, and once updating the FAQ, I
> haven't really done much. But that doesn't stop me from promoting it or a
> lot of people from seeming to find it useful. ;-)
>
> But thank you for the compliment. I'm glad to hear it is useful to you.
Well, you know, I think I already read (almost) all text from the perlfaqs.
I can't remember all of them precisely, only that I know where to look for
something. So I infrequently reread them randomly without any interest for
particular topic (for that I just use the perldoc -q).
Tom Christiansen (if I recall well) used to post random Perl FAQ daily in
the clp.misc, but I haven't been in the ng for quite long time. When I got
URL about this daily faq, it reminds me to what Tom did in the ng and I
didn't need a second thought to subscribe.
Frankly, I don't realize about the FAQ being a bit old. I'm mostly with
5.005_03. I just installed 5.6 few days ago and I haven't read all the
manual and faq from the new installation. I'd like to help to enhance
this service. But I haven't had any idea, I think I only have a little
spare time for that.
regards
s::a::n
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