Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-18 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:48:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:57:02PM -0500, Bryan C . Warnock wrote: > > Particularly after this: > > > > http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc > > "Innovation-- you keep using this wo

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread David Grove
> http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?t > ag=ltnc I wish I could think of something commensurate to say. I don't think I've ever seen this much cockamamey horseradish on a single sheet of cyberpaper. The most absurd part of it is that the bastages actually

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread schwern
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:57:02PM -0500, Bryan C . Warnock wrote: > Particularly after this: > > http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc "Innovation-- you keep using this word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 21:32, Nathan Torkington wrote: > David L. Nicol writes: > > Is there a budget? Apprenticeship makes all kinds of sense when > > there is actually a money flow into the guild; the carrot of eventual > > credentials is too weak for me and many lesser poetasters. > >

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:11:33AM -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the magic address; > > -digest has a specific meaning with many mailing list managers. I > would suggest calling it perl6-summaries or such to avoid confusion. Yuh, I thought of that the second after tell

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: [...] > To you, and to everyone else who has asked, yes. I'm working on setting > up a list right now, hosted at netthink. It's currently subscribable, but > there are some teething problems with posting. (Which needn't concern you, > except that if you s

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread H . Merijn Brand
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:44:38 +, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was being serious. But first, a plea: > > This is much harder than doing the Perl 5 summaries, because I have to > watch over a lot more things. I'd appreciate some help; if you feel this > is a useful exercise and yo

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:46:08PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > Would it be possible to make this summary subsribable, so I can drop my > subscribtions to p6-internal? To you, and to everyone else who has asked, yes. I'm working on setting up a list right now, hosted at netthink. It's currently

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: [...] > If you think it would be ethical and correct for the assistants to draw > a salary while the editor does not, please go ahead and push O'Reilly > for money. I want a cent per mail delivered from the perl mailinglists![1] Who want's to pay? (In o

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-13 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:32:46PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > David L. Nicol writes: > > Is there a budget? Apprenticeship makes all kinds of sense when > > there is actually a money flow into the guild; the carrot of eventual > > credentials is too weak for me and many lesser poetasters.

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-13 Thread Nathan Torkington
David L. Nicol writes: > Is there a budget? Apprenticeship makes all kinds of sense when > there is actually a money flow into the guild; the carrot of eventual > credentials is too weak for me and many lesser poetasters. > > Could O'Reilly and Microsoft divert some funds to actually paying pe

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-13 Thread David L. Nicol
"Bryan C. Warnock" wrote: > > [1] See the massive thread starting at > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00584.html Is there a budget? Apprenticeship makes all kinds of sense when there is actually a money flow into the guild; the carrot of eventual credentials is too weak for me and many lesser poeta

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:26:54AM -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > It also sounds like a good task for the PAWBs[1] - perhaps as contributors > while you handle the editing? Very good thinking! I've already had a couple of volunteers (Thanks guys!) so to save me sending out the same mail over a

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
Simon: > This is much harder than doing the Perl 5 summaries, because I have to > watch over a lot more things. I'd appreciate some help; if you feel this > is a useful exercise and you can spare about an hour a week, please get > in touch with me and I'll tell you how you can help me. Alternative

This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-11 Thread Simon Cozens
I was being serious. But first, a plea: This is much harder than doing the Perl 5 summaries, because I have to watch over a lot more things. I'd appreciate some help; if you feel this is a useful exercise and you can spare about an hour a week, please get in touch with me and I'll tell you how yo