Re: [Omaha.pm] New to the Omaha.pm list...

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

On Jul 27, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Jim Lawless wrote:
> Good evening, all.  I just joined and wanted to introduce myself.

Nice to meet you! I hope you can make it out to some meetings -- you'd 
up our average attendance by 33% or so! -grin-

(oh... you should add your bio to our wiki!)

> Although I primarily use Java-oriented tools during the day, I've been
> a Perl programmer for just over 11 years.

I claim 1993 as my part-time Perl beginnings, but I took breaks in MS 
ASP and Informix 4GL.

> My biggest Perl claim-to-fame, was placing 2nd in one of The Perl
> Journal's Obfuscated Perl Coding contests:
>
> http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_3/tpj0203-0012.html

That's awesome! Congrats! How long did that take you? I love Felix's 
intro on that web site.

I've added you to our Past Events of Note list. We need all the Perl 
fame we can leech! -grin-

>  ( Including the first
> CGI article in print in the pages of a DDJ special edition.  Okay,
> there was another CGI article in the issue, but *ours* were the
> first ones in print. )
>
> http://www.radiks.net/~jimbo/articles.htm

Do you have a soft copy of the article?

> I look forward to chatting with you all about "old" Perl, OO Perl,
> Perl 6 under Parrot, and some of the kooky CGI tricks I've done
> using Perl. ( A Perl CGI in ".zip" clothing, a web-page hit-counter
> that generates a GIF without using any LZW compression... )

I don't like to call it "old Perl" when my boss asks. Wouldn't want him 
to think we've invested heavily in poor language selections. -grin-  Of 
course we've got more OO Perl than you can shake a stick at nowadays, 
so maybe we'll slide.

Can you do a presentation for our next meeting? I'd love to hear an 
intro (demo?) of Perl 6 / Parrot, and have someone explain to me why a 
simple Perl hacker like me should care. Are you following the Perl 6 
scalliwag at all? I haven't kept up this year.

> I hope to meet some of you at upcoming meetings.

Ditto! I'm buying @ SIG-BEER. I've heard its good to bribe newcomers. 
-grin-

> $y=151502483;
> while($x=$y%113) { print sprintf("%c",$x); $y=int($y/113); }

Did you know there's actually a simpler way to write that? -poke-

Again, Welcome!

j