> From: Felix Gallo <fsg@coriolan.amicus.com>
>
> Mr. Bunce haec fecit:
> > p.s. What's the 'proper' name for 'non-negative integers'? I forget.
> > Is it Natural, Cardinal, Ordinal or something else? (Once upon a time
> > I wrote a Pascal compiler but I've forgoten all these terms :-)
>
> Rabbinical.
:-)
Hardly transparent to the casual Module List browser!
> If the name of a module is not supposed to be dependent on its
> implementation, then I'm opening up the floor to votes as to what
> I should call the module-formerly-known-as-LimitedPGPTkSafePerl.
> Mr-Mxyzptlk.pm (sp.), maybe?
I think you need an abstract name, in the sense that 'Java' is abstract.
How about
Shona
(a small island off the west coast of Scotland, and the name of
my mothers' dog :-)
> In other news, if anyone's interested in helping to Iwo Jimaesquely
> hoist the flag of perl in this time of amateur languages (javascript
> indeed), limitedpgptksafeperl's still here, still in beta, and needing
> other pairs of eyes to tell me exactly how bad my code is. Or, I could
> do real work during the day. :)
I believe that you need to start 'marketing' Shona (or whatever it's to be
called). Having a short simple catchy name is a significant part of that process.
From what (little) I've heard about limitedpgptksafeperl it's an important
project.
I suggest a regular (say bi-weekly) summary and reminder message in
comp.lang.perl.announce and other related groups with pointers to a
mailing list and website/archive.
You need mindshare and you need it fast.
People will crawl over the code one they know it exists and that they should
be interested in it.
Wrapping/splitting some/most of the functionality up into several new modules,
layered over other modules like Safe and Tk, would be handy. It would allow
users to use Safe+PGP without Tk for example. It would also gain you some/more
'advertising' space in the Module List.
At the moment you're not even registered with the module server (PAUSE).
Get yourself over to http://franz.ww.tu-berlin.de/modulelist and sign up.
That'll give you a personal directory mirrored onto all the global CPAN
sites that you can use to distribute the software.
Tim.
>
> Mr. Bunce haec fecit:
> > p.s. What's the 'proper' name for 'non-negative integers'? I forget.
> > Is it Natural, Cardinal, Ordinal or something else? (Once upon a time
> > I wrote a Pascal compiler but I've forgoten all these terms :-)
>
> Rabbinical.
:-)
Hardly transparent to the casual Module List browser!
> If the name of a module is not supposed to be dependent on its
> implementation, then I'm opening up the floor to votes as to what
> I should call the module-formerly-known-as-LimitedPGPTkSafePerl.
> Mr-Mxyzptlk.pm (sp.), maybe?
I think you need an abstract name, in the sense that 'Java' is abstract.
How about
Shona
(a small island off the west coast of Scotland, and the name of
my mothers' dog :-)
> In other news, if anyone's interested in helping to Iwo Jimaesquely
> hoist the flag of perl in this time of amateur languages (javascript
> indeed), limitedpgptksafeperl's still here, still in beta, and needing
> other pairs of eyes to tell me exactly how bad my code is. Or, I could
> do real work during the day. :)
I believe that you need to start 'marketing' Shona (or whatever it's to be
called). Having a short simple catchy name is a significant part of that process.
From what (little) I've heard about limitedpgptksafeperl it's an important
project.
I suggest a regular (say bi-weekly) summary and reminder message in
comp.lang.perl.announce and other related groups with pointers to a
mailing list and website/archive.
You need mindshare and you need it fast.
People will crawl over the code one they know it exists and that they should
be interested in it.
Wrapping/splitting some/most of the functionality up into several new modules,
layered over other modules like Safe and Tk, would be handy. It would allow
users to use Safe+PGP without Tk for example. It would also gain you some/more
'advertising' space in the Module List.
At the moment you're not even registered with the module server (PAUSE).
Get yourself over to http://franz.ww.tu-berlin.de/modulelist and sign up.
That'll give you a personal directory mirrored onto all the global CPAN
sites that you can use to distribute the software.
Tim.