From: Jan Keiser <jan.keiser@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T15:42:56+09:00
Subject: Re: interesting Perl Journal move

michael libby wrote:
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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:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
> 

I like this idea. It fits in with 'Language of the Year', best tool for the
job etc.

BTW Does anyone remember 'Computer Language' magazine published in the late '80s?


> 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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Jan

'Imagination is more important than knowledge' - Albert Einstein