Re: Critique available

[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.meta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:42:41PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> 
> >                                                      When an article
> > in perl.com is so overwhelmingly negative about the work so far, do

Yup.  I can't see www.sun.com carrying an editorial saying effectively
"Java: we are all going to hell in a handbasket".  Well, maybe they
are, precisely because of Java, but that's not the point here... 

> > you think that stirs confidence in what we're doing? 
> 
> To strive for balance, I think perl.com's home page should also have the
> links to Larry's ALS talk and slides.  I know they are not a polished

Definitely.

> collection of web pages, but they are still quite readable.  They also
> give a different perspective to the RFC collection.
> 
> An article emphasizing positive aspects of the process so far would also
> seem like a nice idea, but somebody'd have to write it :-).

I think I will try my hand at this.

> -- 
>     Andy Dougherty		[email protected]
>     Dept. of Physics
>     Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

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