Re: [MacPerl] Re: [Boston.pm] use Perl;

[Nathaniel Irons <lexical@bumppo.net>]

On 4/7/2000 at 12:39 PM, john.saylor@cybertrust.gte.com (Saylor, John)
wrote:

> Slashdot is good, I read it; but why reproduce it and narrow it to
> perl? Wouldn't it be better to add a section to the main site [like
> apache/askslashdot/&c.]?

Because there's a finite number of garish color schemes in the world,
and we need to preserve some for future generations.

I don't see how this still-hypothetical site narrows anything.
Slashdot's UI is so ornery that I don't get the impression anyone looks
at its subsections; I can't recall ever having seen an inbound link to a
slashdot story that wasn't on the main page.  Meanwhile, a separate site
can serve as a handy public testbed for Chris' banging on slashcode all
day, and be publicized without slashdot's shadow looming in the
background.  Plus the use.perl.org URL is cooler.

As long as we're talking about slashdot, I think the UP topics could
benefit from a useful-open-question entry, akin to Ask Slashdot.  More
useful as the readership expands, of course.

I think Use Perl is attractive, and there's probably a good deal of
potential in providing a discussion aspect to Perl News.  Abigail's
right to some extent about fragmentation[1], but the number of people
who can keep up with all the lists and IRC channels and newsgroups and
whatnot are comparatively few and far between.  I don't have enough time
to stay anywhere near as well-informed as she apparently is, and I'm
willing to put in a lot more time than anyone else I know personally, so
I strongly suspect there's a market here.

  -nat
  
[1] http://use.perl.org/articles/00/04/05/1728250.shtml

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