Re: Hosting and a More Official Status for http://perl-begin.berlios.de/

On Monday 16 April 2007, brian d foy wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Shlomi Fish
>
> Some mistakes you make pertinent to me:
>
> Learning Perl 4th Edition is the current version of the Llama (you list
> the 3rd Edition).
>
> Learning Perl is not writen for people who are absolute beginners in
> programming. We say as much in the book.
>
> The Student Workbook for Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl are
> missing.
>
> The Perl Review is a print magazine, not an online collection of
> articles. You can get the PDF issues, but it's not something like
> Perl.com or IBM Developer Works.
>
> Randal Schwartz writes for a couple of magazines, not newspapers.
>
> Beginning Perl is now in its  second edition.
>
> Mac OS X isn't "mostly compatible with UNIX", it is a *nix.
>
> Use.perl is missing from the Web Forums link

Thanks for you commentary. I disagree about the Mac OS X one - some things 
about Mac OS X differ from most other Unix-flavours, including the absense of 
most of /etc, their case-sensitivity problems, their extended file properties 
(that have often broken perl Makefile.PL) etc. I hate the term *nix because 
no one understands what it is, while "Unix-compatible, a Unix-clone, a 
Unix-flavour, etc." is much clearer.

In any case, I'll try to correct it. Meanwhile you can send patches to:

http://perl-begin.berlios.de/source/

If you want, I'll give you a Subversion commit access, so you can commit it 
there. Just email me your prefered username and password, preferably in a 
text file encrypted with my GPG public key.

I'll try to correct it, but it's hard for me to tell when.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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