use Perl

• Free subscription? (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  [...] Dr. Dobbs Journal (which I keep getting although I have never subscribed to it)

  Perhaps it's a bonus because you wrote a few articles [google.com] for them, a few years ago.
  • Re:Free subscription? (Score:1)

    by jhorwitz (4227)

    I also started getting DDJ, about three months ago. No subscription. I also just got a SysAdmin yesterday, which *might* be part of my USENIX/SAGE membership, but I don't remember reading anything about that. Very strange.
• DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  DDJ has focussed on .net and Java for so long it has forgotten that anything else exists. Of course this might have something to do with all those tool and library vendors that pay for advertising in the magazine.

  Even if the advertisers are almost exclusively for .net and java stuff they could make an effort to include or acknowledge perl - I remember they managed to forget to include perl in one article about jobs (a piece that would be too trivial to deserve an article if done in perl).

  Perhaps you cou

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
  • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    I'm not sure what goes on behind the scenes, but I'm pretty sure they know Perl exists. They even have a part of their web site devoted to it (athough I hear they cut the funding).
    
    If they had just mentioned Mozilla, I would have thought nothing of it. But they mentioned Python (twice!). It seems they could have filled out the article a bit with a couple sentences about Perl. :)
    • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:2)

      by TeeJay (2309)

      They don't have a perl section, they have an archive of perl articles, mostly from other sources, that hasn't been updated or added to for as long as I can remember. unlike say.. python-url which they do weekly.

      DDJ really needs a kick up the arse, if they wan't to be MSDN fine, I just hope another publisher will provide a decent mix of CS, Algorithms, low level and high level programming articles.

      Even at its best DDJ is hit and miss when it comes to decent articles

      If there was a magazine that mixed al

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      @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
      print reverse @JAPH;
  • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:1)

    by sth_2 (2921)

    I had a subscription for a year, but I cancelled it. They picked me to fill out this survey, on a 3.5 floppy. So I filled out. I wrote that I was cancelling the subscription because I found 1 out 3 issues somewhat useful/interesting. I indicated that if I was a visual .net c# vb java programmer (something like that), I would keep the subscription. I also added that the fact that I am taking this survey on a windows box, because that is the only thing it will run on is more fuel for the fire. I did get
    • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:2)

      by brian_d_foy (44)

      As I'm learning in a the magazine biz, free subscriptions are a way to get ad dollars. It's how many people get the magazine, not how many people pay for it.
      • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:1)

        by sth_2 (2921)

        I figured that was the case, with Soooooo many free magazines out there.
          Well as far as TPR is concerned I am very happy to pay for it. Getting the first printed issue in the mail was awesome, I really missed the printed TPJ.
        Not the supplements, the original ones. I look forward to many more.
• well, most perl people don't know (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  about TPF grants, the results of those grants or what TPF actually does. Why would you expect Dr. Dobb's to know more than the folks around here?
  • Re:well, most perl people don't know (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    I would expect more because they are writing a bit on Open Source grants and Google exists. :)
    • Re:well, most perl people don't know (Score:2)

      by hfb (74)

      Google doesn't magically pull stuff out of its arse. I tried several different keyword searches and TPF was nowhere in the top 5 pages. People shouldn't be expected to beat a path to your door.
      • Re:well, most perl people don't know (Score:2)

        by brian_d_foy (44)

        Well, perl grant [google.com] worked for me. If I was looking for Perl grants, that's what I would search.
• maybe from OSCON (Score:2)

  by wickline (135)

  I have a habit of using particular tweaked versions of email and street addresses for different purposes so I can tell who spreads my contact info around (and so I can kill email addresses that get spam).
  
  My OSCON 2004 registration address is now getting a free subscription to DDJ. I think the second or third issue of that free subscription arrived last week.
  
  -matt