Re: [getting PAUSE account]

Hello Mike et al.,

How are you? Thank you for your reply. I mainly want the PAUSE account to practice writing modules and hopefully develop my own to process files and directories. It’s not that I have my Perl code ready to go, but it’s a little sad that it takes ‘up to three weeks’ to get a PAUSE account. I love the beauty and elegance of Perl, but we as a community have to respond to such basic requests much faster. Now I see one of the reasons Perl lost to Python.

William,

Take the initiative in your own hands. What I do is I try to use Perl as an auxiliary language to perform additional programming tasks like launching computing jobs on a supercomputer, pre-processing or post-processing files and updating my MacPorts system. You will soon realise that there are plenty of such tasks.

Thank you and have a healthy, successful and productive New Year 2024 ahead!

—
Best wishes,
Maxim

Maxim Abalenkov \\ [email protected]
+44 7 486 486 505 \\ www.maxim.abalenkov.uk

> On 25 Dec 2023, at 18:00, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Great question.  I think I did see that Pause accounts 
> were going away soon, but I'm not sure that has taken 
> place yet.  I just signed into my Pause account and I 
> don't see anything about them being retired.
> 
> This 3 year old post says it takes a bit of time:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/l1n0q2/questions_about_pause_account/?rdt=41813
> 
> Do you plan to create a module for CPAN?  I'm just 
> wondering.  Perl is still going strong, though you 
> might not think so from what you see.  I use it 
> all day - every day.
> 
> 
> Mike
> Houston, TX
> 
> 
> On 12/23/23 10:01, Maxim Abalenkov wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> How are you? I hope all is well with you. I’m reading the ‘Intermediate Perl’ textbook. It suggests applying for a PAUSE account. I applied a couple of days ago using the link listed in the book. However, I still haven’t received any reply. Am I doing something wrong? Shall I be more patient or is the advice in the book no longer relevant? Please let me know. Thank you and have a good day ahead!
>> 
>> --
>> Best wishes,
>> Maxim
>> 
>> Maxim Abalenkov \\ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> +44 7 486 486 505 \\ www.maxim.abalenkov.uk <http://www.maxim.abalenkov.uk/>