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- Subject: comp.lang.perl.* FAQ 2/5 - Information Sources
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- Archive-name: perl-faq/part2
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- Last Edited: Thu Jan 11 00:54:41 1996 by spp (Stephen P Potter) on syrinx.psa.com
-
- This posting contains answers to general information questions, mostly of
- about information sources.
-
- 2.1) Is there a USENET group for Perl?
-
- Yes there is: comp.lang.perl.misc. This group, which currently can get
- up to 150 messages per day, contains all kinds of discussions about
- Perl; everything from bug reports to new features to the history to
- humour and trivia. This is the best source of information about
- anything Perl related, especially what's new with Perl5. Because of
- its vast array of topics, it functions as both a comp.lang.* style
- newsgroup (providing technical information) and also as a rec.* style
- newsgroup, kind of a support group for Perl addicts (PerlAnon?). There
- is also the group comp.lang.perl.announce, a place specifically for
- announcements related to perl (new releases, the FAQ, new modules,
- etc).
-
- Larry is a frequent poster to this group as well as most (all?) of the
- seasoned Perl programmers. Questions will be answered by some of the
- most knowledgable Perl Hackers, often within minutes of a question
- being posted (give or take distribution times).
-
-
- 2.2) Have any books or magazine articles been published about Perl?
-
- There are a number of books either available or planned. Mostly
- chronologically, they are:
-
- Programming Perl (the Camel Book):
- Author: Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz
- Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates
- ISBN 0-937175-64-1 (English)
- ISBN 4-89052-384-7 (Japanese)
- ISBN 3-446-17257-2 (German) (Programmieren in Perl)
- (translator: Hanser Verlag)
-
- This is probably the most well known and most useful book for 4.036 and
- earlier. This part of O'Reilly's hugely successful "Nutshell Handbook"
- series. Besides serving as a reference guide for Perl, it also contains
- tutorial material and is a great source of examples and cookbook
- procedures, as well as wit and wisdom, tricks and traps, pranks and
- pitfalls. The code examples contained therein are available from
- ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/programming_perl/perl.tar.Z or
- ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/ora/programming_perl. Corrections and
- additions to the book can be found in the Perl4 man page right before
- the BUGS section under the heading ERRATA AND ADDENDA.
-
- Learning Perl (the Llama Book):
- ISBN 1-56592-042-2 (English)
- ISBN 4-89502-678-1 (Japanese)
- ISBN 2-84177-005-2 (French)
- ISBN 3-930673-08-8 (German)
-
- Another of O'Reilly's "Nutshell Handbooks", by Randal Schwartz. This
- book is a smaller, gentler introduction to perl and is based off of
- Randal's perl classes. While in general this is a good book for
- learning perl (like it's title), early printings did contain many typos
- and don't cover some of the more interesting features of perl. Please
- check the errata sheet at ftp.ora.com, as well as the on-line examples.
-
- If you can't find these books in your local technical bookstore, they
- may be ordered directly from O'Reilly by calling 1-800-998-9938 if in
- North America and 1-707-829-0515 otherwise.
-
- Johan Vromans* created a beautiful reference guide. The reference
- guide comes with the Camel book in a nice, glossy format. The LaTeX
- (source) and PostScript (ready to print) versions are available for FTP
- from ftp.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/DOC/perlref-4.036.1.tar.Z in Europe or from
- ftp.cis.ufl.edu:/pub/perl/doc/perlref-4.036.tar.gz in the United
- States. Obsolete versions in TeX or troff may still be available, but
- these versions don't print as nicely. See also:
-
- [] ftp://ftp.uu.net/languages/perl/perlref-4.036.1.tar.gz
- [] ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/DOC/perlref-4.036.1.tar.gz
- [] ftp://ftp.khoros.unm.edu/pub/perl/perlref-4.036.1.tar.gz
-
- Johan has also updated and released a reference guide based on version
- 5.000. This is available from the same places as the 4.036 guide.
- This version is also available from prep.gnu.ai.mit.edu in the /pub/gnu
- section along with the perl5 source. It may be added to the standard
- perl5 distribution sometime after 5.002. If you are using version
- 5.000, you will want to get this version rather than the 4.036 version.
-
- Larry routinely carries around a camel stamp to use when autographing
- copies of his book. If you can catch him at a conference you can
- usually get him to sign your book for you.
-
- Prentice Hall also has two perl books. The first is ``Perl by
- Example'' by Ellie Quigley. (385 pages, $26.96, ISBN 0-13-122839-0) A
- perl tutorial (perl4); every feature is presented via an annotated
- example and sample output. Reviews of this book have varied widely.
- Many new perl users have used this book with much success, while many
- "veteran" programmers have had many complaints about it.
-
- The second book is called ``Software Engineering with Perl'' by Carl
- Dichter and Mark Pease. Randal Schwartz was a technical reviewer for
- this book and notes this:
-
- SEwP is not meant as instruction in the Perl language, but rather
- as an example of how Perl may be used to assist in the semi-formal
- software engineering development cycles. There's a lot of Perl
- code that's fairly well commented, but most of the book describes
- software engineering methodologies. For the perl-challenged,
- there's a *light* treatment of the language as well, but they refer
- to the llama and the camel for the real meat.
-
- SAMS Publishing also has a Perl book available, as part of their "Teach
- Yourself in 21 Days" series, called "Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days".
- ISBN 0-672-30586-0 Price: $29.95, 841 Pages. This book is the first
- book to have a section devoted to version 5.000, although it was
- written during an alpha stage and may not necessarily reflect current
- reality.
-
- Please note that none of the above books are perfect, all have some
- inaccurances and typos. The two which Larry is directly associated
- with (the O'Reilly books) are probably the most technically correct,
- but also the most dated. Carefully looking over any book you are
- considering purchasing will save you much time, money, and frustration.
-
- Starting in the March, 1995 edition of ``Unix Review''. Randal
- Schwartz* has been authoring a bi-monthly Perl column. This has so
- far been an introductory tutorial.
-
- Larry Wall has published a 3-part article on perl in Unix World
- (August through October of 1991), and Rob Kolstad also had a 3-parter
- in Unix Review (May through July of 1990). Tom Christiansen also has
- a brief overview article in the trade newsletter Unix Technology
- Advisor from November of 1989. You might also investigate "The Wisdom
- of Perl" by Gordon Galligher from SunExpert magazine; April 1991
- Volume 2 Number 4. The Dec 92 Computer Language magazine also
- contains a cover article on Perl, "Perl: the Programmers Toolbox".
-
- Many other articles on Perl have been recently published. If you
- have references, especially on-line copies, please mail them to
- the FAQ maintainer for inclusion is this notice.
-
- The USENIX LISA (Large Installations Systems Administration) Conference
- have for several years now included many papers of tools written in
- Perl. Old proceedings of these conferences are available; look in
- your current issue of ";login:" or send mail to office@usenix.org
- for further information.
-
- Japan seems to be jumping with Perl books. If you can read japanese
- here are a few you might be interested in. Thanks to Jeffrey Friedl*
- and Ken Lunde* for this list (NOTE: my screen cannot handle japanese
- characters, so this is all in English for the moment NOTE2: These
- books are written in Japanese, these titles are just translations):
-
- Title: Welcome to Perl Country (Perl-no Kuni-he Youkoso)
- Authors: Kaoru Maeda, Hiroshi Koyama, Yasushi Saito and Arihito
- Fuse
- Pages: 268+9 Publisher: Science Company
- Pub. Date: April 25, 1993 ISBN: 4-7819-0697-4
- Price: 2472Y Author Email: maeda@src.ricoh.co.jp
- Comments: Written during the time the Camel book was being
- translated. A useful introduction, but uses jperl (Japanese Perl)
- which is not necessarily compatible.
-
- Title: How to Write Perl (Perl Shohou)
- Author: Toshiyuki Masui
- Pages: 352 Publisher: ASCII Corporation
- Pub. Date: July 1, 1993 ISBN: 4-7561-0281-6
- Price: 3200Y Author Email: masui@shocsl.sharp.co.jp
- Comments: More advanced than "Welcome.." and not meant as an
- introduction. Uses the standard perl and has examples for handling
- Japanese text.
-
- Title: Introduction to Perl (Nyuumon Perl)
- Author: Shinji Kono
- Pages: 203 Publisher: ASCII Corporation
- Date: July 11, 1994 ISBN: 4-7561-0292-1
- Price: 1800Y Author Email: kono@csl.sony.co.jp
- Comments: Uses the interactive Perl debugger to explain how things
- work.
-
- Title: Perl Programming
- Authors: L Wall & R Schwartz Translator: Yoshiyuki Kondo
- Pages: 637+32 Publisher: Softbank Corporation
- Pub. Date: February 28, 1993 ISBN: 4-89052-384-7
- Price: 4500Y Author Email: cond@lsi-j.co.jp
- Comments: Official Japanese translation of the Camel book,
- "Programming Perl". Somewhat laced with translator notes to
- explain the humour. The most useful book. Also includes the Perl
- Quick Reference -- in Japanese!
-
-
- 2.3) When will the Camel and Llama books be updated?
-
- As of August, 1995, ORA has contracted with Stephen to handle the
- Camel update. According to the accepted timeline, the first draft
- is to be finished by the end of April, 1996. The tutorial sections
- are being cut some, and the book will take on much more of a reference
- style. Don't worry, it will still contain it's distinctive humor and
- flair.
-
- There are no current plans to update the Llama. For the most part,
- it serves as a good introduction for both major versions of perl.
- There may be some minor editing to it, but probably nothing major.
- If anything, it is more likely that a third book (working title:
- Learning More Perl) will be written as a tutorial for the new perl5
- paradigm.
-
- 2.4) What FTP resources are available?
-
- Since 1993, several ftp sites have sprung up for Perl and Perl related
- items. The site with the biggest repository of Perl scripts right now
- seems to be ftp.cis.ufl.edu [128.227.100.198] in /pub/perl. The
- scripts directory has an INDEX with over 400 lines in it, each
- describing what the script does. The src directory has sources and/or
- binaries for a number of different perl ports, including MS-Dos,
- Macintosh and Windows/NT. This is maintained by the Computing Staff at
- UF*.
-
- Note: European users please use the site src.doc.ic.ac.uk
- [149.169.2.1] in /pub/computing/programming/languages/perl/
- The link speed would be a lot better for all. Contact
- L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk for more information. It is updated
- daily.
-
- There are also a number of other sites. I'll add more of them as I get
- information on them.
- [site maintainers: if you want to add a blurb here, especially if you
- have something unique, please let me know. -spp]
-
- The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is in heavy development.
- Once the main site and its mirrors are fully operational, this answer
- will change to reflect it's existance.
-
-
- 2.5) What WWW/gopher resources are available?
-
- The World Wide Web is exploding with new Perl sites all the time. Some
- of the more notable ones are:
- http://www.cis.ufl.edu/perl
- http://www.metronet.com/1h/perlinfo, which has a great section on
- Perl5.
- http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/perl/perl.html
- http://web.nexor.co.uk/perl/perl.html, a great site for European
- and UK users.
-
-
- 2.6) Can people who don't have access to USENET get comp.lang.perl.misc?
-
- "Perl-Users" is the mailing list version of the comp.lang.perl.misc
- newsgroup. If you're not lucky enough to be on USENET you can post to
- comp.lang.perl.misc by sending to one of the following addresses.
- Which one will work best for you depends on which nets your site is
- hooked into. Ask your local network guru if you're not certain.
-
- Internet: PERL-USERS@VIRGINIA.EDU
- Perl-Users@UVAARPA.VIRGINIA.EDU
-
- BitNet: Perl@Virginia
-
- uucp: ...!uunet!virginia!perl-users
-
- The Perl-Users list is bidirectionally gatewayed with the USENET
- newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc. This means that VIRGINIA functions as a
- reflector. All traffic coming in from the non-USENET side is
- immediately posted to the newsgroup. Postings from the USENET side are
- periodically digested and mailed out to the Perl-Users mailing list. A
- digest is created and distributed at least once per day, more often if
- traffic warrants.
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to:
-
- Internet: Perl-Users-Request@Virginia.EDU
- Perl-Users-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
-
- BitNet: Perl-Req@Virginia
-
- uucp: ...!uunet!virginia!perl-users-request
-
- Coordinator: Marc Rouleau <mer6g@VIRGINIA.EDU>
-
-
- 2.7) Are archives of comp.lang.perl.misc available?
-
- Yes, there are. ftp.cis.ufl.edu:/pub/perl/comp.lang.perl.*/monthly has
- an almost complete collection dating back to 12/89 (missing 08/91
- through 12/93). They are kept as one large file for each month.
-
- A more sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism is desirable.
- Preferably one that allows you to retrieve article using a fast-access
- indices, keyed on at least author, date, subject, thread (as in "trn")
- and probably keywords. Right now, the MH pick command works for this,
- but it is very slow to select on 18000 articles.
-
- If you have, or know where I can find, the missing sections, please let
- perlfaq@perl.com know.
-
-
- 2.8) Is there a WAIS server for comp.lang.perl.*?
-
- Yes there is. Set your WAIS client to
- archive.orst.edu:9000/comp.lang.perl.*. According to their
- introduction, they have a complete selection from 1989 on.
-
- 2.9) What other sources of information about Perl or training are available?
-
- There is a #Perl channel on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) where Tom and
- Randal have been known to hang out. Here you can get immediate answers
- to questions from some of the most well-known Perl Hackers.
-
- The perl5-porters (perl5-porters@nicoh.com) mailing list was created to
- aid in communication among the people working on perl5. However, it
- has overgrown this function and now also handles a good deal of traffic
- about perl internals.
-
- 2.10) Where can I get training classes on Perl?
-
- USENIX, LISA, SUG, WCSAS, AUUG, FedUnix and Europen sponsor tutorials
- of varying lengths on Perl at the System Administration and General
- Conferences. These public classes are typically taught by Tom
- Christiansen*.
-
- In part, Tom and Randal teach Perl to help keep bread on their tables
- long enough while they continue their pro bono efforts of documenting
- perl (Tom keeps writing more man pages for it :-) and expanding the
- perl toolkit through extension libraries, work which they enjoy doing
- as it's fun and helps out the whole world, but which really doesn't
- pay the bills. Such is the nature of free(ly available) software.
- Send mail to <perlclasses@perl.com> for details and availability.
-
- Tom is also available to teach on-site classes, included courses on
- advanced perl and perl5. Classes run anywhere from one day to week
- long sessions and cover a wide range of subject matter. Classes can
- include lab time with exercises, a generally beneficial aspect. If you
- would like more information regarding Perl classes or when the next
- public appearances are, please contact Tom directly at 1.303.444.3212.
-
- Randal Schwartz* provides a 2-day lecture-only and a 4-5 day lecture-lab
- course based on his popular book "Learning Perl". For details, contact
- Randal directly via email or at 1.503.777.0095.
-
- Internet One provides a 2 day "Introduction to Perl" and 2 day
- "Advanced Perl" workshop. The 50% hands-on and 50% lecture format
- allow attendees to write several programs themselves. Supplied
- are the user manuals, reference copies of Larry Wall's "Program-
- ming Perl", and a UNIX directory of all training examples and
- labs. To obtain outlines, pricing, or scheduling information, use
- the following:
-
- o Phone: 1.303.444.1993
- o Email: info@InternetOne.COM
- o See our Ad in the "SysAdmin" magazine
- o View the outlines via the Web: http://www.InternetOne.COM/
-
-
- 2.11) What companies use or ship Perl?
-
- At this time, the known list of companies that ship Perl includes at
- least the following, although some have snuck it into /usr/contrib or
- its moral equivalent:
-
- BSDI
- Comdisco Systems
- CONVEX Computer Corporation
- Crosspoint Solutions
- Data General
- Dell
- DRD Corporation
- IBM (SP systems)
- Intergraph
- Kubota Pacific
- Netlabs
- SGI (without taintperl)
- Univel
-
- Some companies ship it on their "User Contributed Software Tape",
- such as DEC and HP. Apple Computer has shipped the MPW version of
- Macintosh Perl on one of their Developer CDs (Essentials*Tools*Objects
- #11) (and they included it under "Essentials" :-)
-
- Many other companies use Perl internally for purposes of tools
- development, systems administration, installation scripts, and test
- suites. Rumor has it that the large workstation vendors (the TLA set)
- are seriously looking into shipping Perl with their standard systems
- "soon".
-
- People with support contracts with their vendors are actively
- encouraged to submit enhancement requests that Perl be shipped
- as part of their standard system. It would, at the very least,
- reduce the FTP load on the Internet. :-)
-
- If you know of any others, please send them in.
-
-
- 2.12) Is there commercial, third-party support for Perl?
-
- Not really. Although perl is included in the GNU distribution, at last
- check, Cygnus does not offer support for it. However, it's unclear
- whether they've ever been offered sufficient financial incentive to do
- so. Feel free to try.
-
- On the other hand, you do have comp.lang.perl.misc as a totally gratis
- support mechanism. As long as you ask "interesting" questions, you'll
- probably get plenty of help. :-)
-
- While some vendors do ship Perl with their platforms, that doesn't mean
- they support it on arbitrary other platforms. And in fact, all they'll
- probably do is forward any bug reports on to Larry. In practice, this
- is far better support than you could hope for from nearly any vendor.
-
- If you purchase a product from Netlabs (the company Larry works for),
- you actually can get a support contract that includes Perl.
-
- The companies who won't use something unless they can pay money for it
- will be left out. Often they're motivated by wanting someone whom they
- could sue. If all they want is someone to help them out with Perl
- problems, there's always the net. And if they really want to pay
- someone for that help, well, any of a number of the regular Perl
- "dignitaries" would appreciate the money. ;-)
-
- If companies want "commercial support" for it badly enough, speak up --
- something might be able to be arranged.
-
-
- 2.13) What is a JAPH? What does "Will hack perl for ..." mean?
-
- These are the "just another perl hacker" signatures that some people
- sign their postings with. About 100 of the of the earlier ones are
- available from the various FTP sites.
-
- When people started running out of tricky and interesting JAPHs, some
- of them turned to writing "Will hack perl for ..." quotes. While
- sometimes humourous, they just didn't have the flair of the JAPHs and
- have since almost completely vanished.
-
-
- 2.14) Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
-
- Over a hundred quips by Larry, from postings of his or source code,
- can be found in many of the FTP sites or through the World Wide Web at
- "ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/misc/lwall-quotes"
-
-
- 2.15) What are the known bugs?
-
- This is *NOT* a complete list, just some of the more common bugs that
- tend to bite people.
-
- 5.001:
- op.c: Inconsistent parameter definition for pad_findlex - fixed
- in 5.001a, get development patches a-l.
-
- walk.c: redeclaration of emit_split - fixed in perl5.001a, get
- development patches a-l.
-
- On linux systems "make test" fails on "op/exec Failed test 5". This
- is a known bug with bash, not perl. You can get a new version
- of bash.
-
- Also on linux systems, "make test" hangs on lib/anydbm if you include
- NDBM in the extentions. Do not include NDBM.
-
- Another linux problem is getting Dynamic Loading to work. You must
- use dld-2.3.6 (the newest version at the time of writing) to
- use Dynamic Loading.
-
- - All versions of h2ph previous to the one supplied with perl5.001 tended
- to generate improper header files. Something such as:
-
- #if __GNUC__
-
- was incorrectly translated into
-
- if ( &__GNUC__ ) {
-
- instead of
-
- if ( defined(&__GNUC__) ? &__GNUC__ : 0 ) {
-
- Perl5 binaries compiled on SunOS4 exhibit strange behaviour on SunOS5.
- For example, backticks do not work in the scripts. You need to
- compile perl for both architectures, even with Binary Compatibility.
-
-
- 2.16) Where should I post bugs?
-
- Before posting about a bug, please make sure that you are using the
- most recent versions of perl (currently 4.036 and 5.001) available.
- Please also check at the major archive sites to see if there are any
- development patches available (usually named something like
- perl5.001a.patch or patch5.001a - the patch itself, or
- perl5.001a.tar.gz - a prepatched distribution). If you are not using
- one of these versions, chances are you will be told to upgrade because
- the bug has already been fixed.
-
- If you are reporting a bug in perl5, the best place to send your bug
- is <perlbug@perl.com>, which is currently just an alias for
- <perl5-porters@nicoh.com>. In the past, there have been problems with
- the perlbug address. If you have problems with it, please send your
- bug directly to <perl5-porters@nicoh.com>. You may subscribe to the list
- in the customary fashion via mail to <perl5-porters-request@nicoh.com>.
- Feel free to post your bugs to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup as
- well, but do make sure they still go to the mailing list.
-
- If you are posting a bug with a non-Unix port, a non-standard Module
- (such as Tk, Sx, etc) please see the documentation that came with it
- to determine the correct place to post bugs.
-
- To enhance your chances of getting any bug you report fixed:
-
- 1. Make sure you are using a production version of perl. Alpha and
- Beta version problems have probably already been reported and
- fixed.
-
- 2. Try to narrow the problem down to as small a piece of code as
- possible. If you can get it down to 1 line of Perl then so much
- the better.
-
- 3. Include a copy of the output from the myconfig script from the
- Perl source distribution in your posting.
-
- 2.17) Where should I post source code?
-
- You should post source code to whichever group is most appropriate,
- but feel free to cross-post to comp.lang.perl.misc. If you want to
- cross-post to alt.sources, please make sure it follows their
- posting standards, including setting the Followups-To header
- line to NOT include alt.sources; see their FAQ for details.
-
-
- 2.18) Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
-
- The perlobj(1) man page is a good place to start, and then you can
- check out the excellent perlbot(1) man page written by the dean of perl
- o-o himself, Dean Roehrich. Areas covered include the following:
-
- Idx Subsections in perlobj.1 Lines
- 1 NAME 2
- 2 DESCRIPTION 16
- 3 An Object is Simply a Reference 60
- 4 A Class is Simply a Package 31
- 5 A Method is Simply a Subroutine 34
- 6 Method Invocation 75
- 7 Destructors 14
- 8 Summary 7
-
- Idx Subsections in perlbot.1 Lines
- 1 NAME 2
- 2 INTRODUCTION 9
- 3 Instance Variables 43
- 4 Scalar Instance Variables 21
- 5 Instance Variable Inheritance 35
- 6 Object Relationships 33
- 7 Overriding Superclass Methods 49
- 8 Using Relationship with Sdbm 45
- 9 Thinking of Code Reuse 111
-
- The section on instance variables should prove very helpful to those
- wondering how to get data inheritance in perl.
-
-
- 2.19) Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
-
- While it used to be deep magic, how to do this is now revealed in the
- perlapi(1), perlguts(1), and perlcall(1) man pages, which treat with
- this matter extensively. You should also check the many extensions
- that people have written (see question 1.19), many of which do this
- very thing.
-
-
- 2.20) What is perl.com?
-
- Perl.com is just Tom's domain name, registered as dedicated to "Perl
- training and consulting". While not a full ftp site (he hasn't got
- the bandwidth (yet)), it does have some interesting bits, most of which
- are replicated elsewhere. It serves as a clearinghouse for certain
- perl related mailing lists. The following aliases work:
-
- perl-packrats: The archivist list
- perl-porters: The porters list
- perlbook: The Camel/Llama/Alpaca writing committee
- perlbugs: The bug list (perl-porters for now)
- perlclasses: Info on Perl training
- perlfaq: Submissions/Errata to the Perl FAQ
- (Tom and Steve)
- perlrefguide: Submissions/Errata to the Perl RefGuide
- (Johan)
-
- 2.21) What do the asterisks (*) throughout the FAQ stand for?
-
- To keep from cluttering up the FAQ and for easy reference all email
- addresses have been collected in this location. For each person
- listed, I offer my thanks for their input and help.
-
- * Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com>
- * Tom Christiansen <tchrist@wraeththu.cs.colorado.edu>
- * Stephen P Potter <spp@pencom.com>
- * Andreas Koenig <k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE>
- * Bill Eldridge <bill@cognet.ucla.edu>
- * Buzz Moschetti <buzz@bear.com>
- * Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
- * David Muir Sharnoff <muir@tfs.com>
- * Dean Roehrich <roehrich@ironwood.cray.com>
- * Dominic Giampaolo <dbg@sgi.com>,
- * Frederic Chauveau <fmc@pasteur.fr>
- * Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
- * Guido van Rossum <guido@cwi.nl>
- * Henk P Penning <henkp@cs.ruu.nl>
- * Jeff Friedl <jfriedl@omron.co.jp>
- * Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
- * John Dallman <jgd@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- * John Lees <lees@pixel.cps.msu.edu>
- * John Ousterhout <ouster@eng.sun.com>
- * Jon Biggar <jon@netlabs.com>
- * Ken Lunde <lunde@mv.us.adobe.com>
- * Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
- * Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
- * Michael D'Errico <mike@software.com>
- * Nick Ing-Simmons <Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com>
- * Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
- * Roberto Salama <rs@fi.gs.com>
- * Steven L Kunz <skunz@iastate.edu>
- * Theodore C. Law <TEDLAW@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM>
- * Thomas R. Kimpton <tom@dtint.dtint.com>
- * Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>
- * UF Computer Staff <consult@cis.ufl.edu>
-
- --
- Stephen P Potter Pencom Systems Administration Beaching It
- spp@psa.pencom.com Pager: 1-800-759-8888, 547-9561 Work: 703-860-2222
- Cthulhu for President in '96: When You're Tired of the Lesser of Two Evils
- --
- Stephen P Potter Pencom Systems Administration Beaching It
- spp@psa.pencom.com Pager: 1-800-759-8888, 547-9561 Work: 703-860-2222
- "I don't care whether people actually like Perl, just so long as they *think*
- they like it... ;-)" -Larry Wall
-