Agenda
On 11 July, 2002, the Israeli Perl Mongers held their regular monthly meeting. The program:
- Roi, from Raz Information Systems, will lecture about HTML::Merge.
Location:
Report
I am writing this nearly two month after the meeting took place as I
was very busy after the meeting and went to a holiday in most of
August. Actually during the holiday I was active organizing
the first Perl meeting in Budapest.
As you might have read in the mailing list, since the last meeting
Ariel Brosh has suddenly passed away. I knew him from the first perl
meeting and he also participated in this one on July 11 where he
explained things about the HTML::Merge package in what he was very
deeply involved. He was one of the most active Perl developers in
Israel. See the projects page for his projects.
Now back to the meeting as much as I can remember. Actually I'd be
glad if other participants also wrote about the meetings and it would
not be depending only on my schedule.
Before the 'official talk' among other things we mentioned fun ways to
frighten C programmers with statements like
$a++ unless $a>3;
I asked about a possibility to compare solutions in various
languages. Shlomi (I think it was him) pointed me to
The Great Computer
Language Shootout where some 30 programming languages are
being compared. It is interesting but I am thinking about something
different more for educational purposes. I think about a site where
you can find programming problems at various levels solved in a number
of languages with an explanation about the solution and the
language. For certain languages there might be more than one solution
but it is not a requirement. Speed would not be important. It would be
a sort of multilingual Cookbook. There is another site that is a bit
similar to what I am looking for:
FAQTS
Roi from RAZ Information Systems
talked about HTML::Merge - the open source scripting tool they have
developed.
On Source forge
they give the following description:
Merge is a Perl/HTML/SQL embedded scripting tool, user
extendable, that works by compiling your pages to pure
Perl. (HTML::Merge)
This meeting summary was written by Gabor Szabo.