Agenda
On 03 February, 2005, the Israeli Perl Mongers held their regular monthly meeting. The program:
- 18:00-19:00 -- Assembly and light refreshments
- 19:00-21:40 -- Liraz Siri will lecture about "Why Python is in Your Future"
- As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.
Location: Ramat Gan
Report
- Liraz Siri
- Gabor Szabo
- Offer Kaye
- Uri Bruck
- Shlomi Fish
- Oded Reznik
- Mishael Golan
- Ili Fishman
- Poldi Kula
- Yehuda Zadik
- David Istermann
- Arik Manor
- Adam Morrison
- Yuval Yaari
- Gaal Yahas
- Yuly Stremovsky
- Pinchas Nisanov
- Ran Eilam
- Daniel Lamberger
- Thomas Maier
- Jason Friedman
- Yishai Weiss
- Shlomo Yona
- Mikhael Goikhman
The Feb. 2005 meeting got off to what I thought was a great start,
with several new people showing up - I hope they enjoyed their first
Israel.pm meeting and that they'll be back for more :)
By the time the first lecture was to begin, we had nearly 20 people in the room (several late
comers showed up after 19:00), however one important person had not yet showed up - Liraz was
running late due to transportation problems. So Gabor got a chance to show us his brand-new
module and website, CPAN::Forum.
The site,
http://www.cpanforum.com/, provides a central place to discuss matters relating to
CPAN modules. each module has its own forum, including links to the search.cpan.org
page and related pages. In fact, each module page on search.cpan.org now has a link
directly to its forum page on cpanforum.com, which is very handy. The idea behind
CPAN::Forum is that instead of having to register to a seperate mailing list for each
module one is interested in (i.e. wants to discuss), you now need to register to only one
site. Gabor didn't get a chance to actually show code, since at about 19:15
Liraz showed up and Gabor relinquished the floor to him.
Liraz is a long-time Perl programmer who recently
discovered the joys of Python and has decided to try to convert other Perl programmers to
the use of Python. Leaving my personal opinion about Python aside, Liraz gave a nice
review of why he thinks Python is a better language, some features of Python, things
it has in common with Perl and things that make it special and finally why we should all
start programming in Python. Right from the start, it was obvious that the members of
Israel.pm were not about to agree to his arguments without some heavy convincing, as
Liraz was constantly interrupted with questions and arguments. In spite of this, Liraz
managed to finish his talk and we even had some time at the end for a short Q&A.
Although it was not planned, Yuli asked to talk for about 10 minutes about a service he
was promoting called BannerShift, a text-ad
banner exchange service. This doesn't really have anything to do with Perl, except for
the fact that many Perl programmers are also webmasters...
The technical part of the meeting wrapped-up around 21:45, and around 10 of us continued
to a new place called "The Sil-Bar", across the street from Dapey Zahav.
The atmosphere was nice, the drinks okay and so was the food, and the conversation
was interesting. In short, we all had a lot of good time :-)
Thanks and see you next time!
This meeting summary was written by your ever cheerful Israel.pm PR person - Offer Kaye.