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From: df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: COPS in perl?
Message-ID: <9926@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 91 13:58:48 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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In article <foobar> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>In article <9920@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) writes:
>Ya know, wouldn't it be neat if people could use comp.lang.c as
>comp.prog.help-wanted.c? I've got lots of great programming projects (in
>C, of course) that I want to farm out to people, and I think a language
>newsgroup is the right place to advertise. Better yet: I've got an
>improved PD clone of ``man'' written in C. I think I'll post it to
>comp.lang.c, because anyone who cares about the C language must care
>about any program written in C.

   Just for the record, it doesn't really matter much to me if cops is in
perl or cobol or sanscrit; it works just fine the way it is in shell and
miscellaneous stuff, but the fact is, people like perl, want applications
in perl, and are interested in seeing certain programs written in the
thing.  If you've got a problem with any post in this group, you can either
hit the "n" key, start up a kill file, e-mail to the offender, or post to
the entire world flaming about how horrible it is.  If your so terribly
concerned about the content in this group, why don't you make a proposal
to split it into other groups?  Change the names?  Do whatever, instead
of complaining about people being interested enough to have fun with the
language.  You seem to be against anyone talking about anything that *you*
want to hear about.  As a matter of fact, I think of all the postings to
this group, *yours* have been the most consitant -- consistant in that
they having nothing to do with perl than any other articles I've seen.

>Just as things having nothing to do with the TeX language
>per se are fair game for TeXHAX, most of the postings currently crammed
>into comp.lang.perl would find a new home in a PUG mailing list.

  And what exactly would you like to see here?  Where would the appropriate
place to post news of a program that people have been asking for, pray tell,
mr. protocal?  Personally, I'd say that a program or idea that uses perl as
a language is more than fair game to post about in the perl language group,
until there is a time that you create comp.lang.perl.d or, in your case,
a more appropritate group, alt.perl.flame.

  Flames welcome, as are other volunteers.

dan