Whence MacPerl (wasRe: [MacPerl] Mac/MacPerl users but notmac-specific)

[robinmcf@altern.org]

Vicki Brown wrote:
>
>I swear, that's it.  We are all Mac/Perl users on this bus. I'm tired
>of "you use a Mac and you use Perl but non-MacPerl-specific questions
>don't belong here".

I have to agree with Vicki here and add a couple of points, but before I do
I'd just like to stress I have been pleasantly surprised to see a great
deal of tolerance shown by the listmembers, especially with regards to
newbie and off topic postings.

1) you can't take the Mac or the Perl out of MacPerl - the other  channels
(which shall remain nameless)for getting together with other Perl users
(platform regardless) means having to deal with large egos who want Perl
elevated to the status of Religion (quite possibly linked to the fact they
make a livings as Perl Consultants).

2) The Perl Journal doesn't strictly limit itself to discussing Perl
syntax, bug reports, revisions, conflicts - why should the MacPerl mailing
list? Granted a mailing list isn't a magazine, but I have enjoyed the
recent breadth of topics (including the discussion about OS X) and
personally I don't mind downloading 20+ emails per session (I've been on
hyperactive mailinglists where the figure ran into the hundreds per 24
hours). In the same vein I don't think  Apple Script, Toolbox, WWW, XS, or
any of the other proposed "splinter" lists generate enough traffic to merit
an entire mailing list all to themselves - at least not if they are based
around MacPerl which is why I subscribed to the MacPerl list in the first
place - I want to know ALL about using MacPerl on the Mac and that includes
the fact that in the greater  Perl universe I keep running into Un*x.




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