From: michael libby <x@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T13:28:10+09:00
Subject: Re: interesting Perl Journal move

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On Thursday 12 September 2002 18:44, Jim Freeze wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 08:18:45AM +0900,  JamesBritt wrote:

> > If you do not already use Linux or C++ it is unlikely you will be
> > reading those magazines.  On the other hand, if you read Dr. Dobbs you
> > will at least see references to things that don't hit your radar in
> > day-to-day life.
>
> Ok, I see. My original intent for a Ruby journal would be as a resource
> for Ruby programmers. I don't see tagging along with the TDP to
> be a fruitful endeavor in Ruby advocacy, but maybe I am just
> not up-to-date with TDP.
>
> However, I think that a good RDP could also be a good advocate.

What I'd like to see is a journal like Dr. Dobbs without so much Microsoft 
and Java, a magazine with some good features (on a theme) and then a Perl 
column, a Ruby column, a Python column, a language of the month column, 
and a general CSci column (algorithms or whatever)-- a heavy focus on 
scripting languages as opposed to C(++)/Java and general computing.

It might be kind of fun if the theme of the first issue were "desktop 
publishing and scripting languages".... suggested articles: how to use a 
scripting language library to create a postscript or PDF file or how to 
transform plain text or POD/RD/WikiML into TeX or XML markup, or perhaps a 
Ruby/Tk (or Fox) pseudo-WYSIWYG text editor that would allow for style 
tags and so forth and outputs to XML or XHTML or some format that could be 
fed to PS/PDF, revision management with CVS and a scripting language, and 
for the CSci column an article on how Longest Common Subsequence (aka 
Algorithm::Diff) works (since LCS is the basis for how CVS functions)-- 
and discussion of how to implement same concisely in some other language 
(Haskell? Guile? Lisp? Parrot assembler?). 

I'm also willing to donate time/labor/money in addition to the above 
daydreams.

 -michael

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