Re: The Case for a New Site for Perl Beginners

In article <200608282247.35033.shlomif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Shlomi Fish
<shlomif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Now as I've mentioned before there are several huge problems with 
> learn.perl.org:

Your definition of  "huge" is probably colored by "I didn't invent it".

> 1. It hasn't been maintained in several years now.

It's been updated for perldoc.perl.org (which is a lot younger than
"several" years) and lists the latest edition of Learning Perl, which
we published last year.

> 2. Its front page contains a list of books, most of which are not
available 
> online and nothing else. 

The front page starts with a pointer to the Perl do***entation. The
list of books are at the bottom. 

The first paragraph has links to www.cpan.org and www.perl.org. Between
those two, you have links to all of the im****tant Perl information.

Who cares if the books are available online? Those are the books I
would recommend to people. 

The "Online Library" link takes you to a page that has the full text of
several books available for free online.

> 3. There aren't any links to online tutorials anywhere on the site. 

Which tutorials do you want listed? 


> 4. There aren't any links to other im****tant online resources (wikis,
mailing 
> lists, etc. either.

As I showed earlier, it already links to www.perl.org, as known as "The
Perl Directory". That's the only im****tant link it really needs.

Mailing lists on the front page: tips, beginners, beginners-digest,
beginners-cgi, beginners-cgi-digest, release-announce, jobs

There is also a pointer to nntp.perl.org.


> 5. The beginners-workers mailing list is closed for subscribers and has
> become 
> completely unresponsive.

Completely unresponsive or just unresponsive to you? I don't see any
reason it needs to be open to all subscribers, either, especially if
you are going to lie like you do in this post.