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From: [email protected] (Joe Casadonte)
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Subject: Announce: PerlRing
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I have created a WebRing (http://www.webring.org) for Perl pages called
PerlRing.  A WebRing is basically a bidirectional linked list of web
pages all related to a particular topic.

The purpose of this ring is to link together homepages relating to Perl,
allowing people to pop from one page to the next, hopefully finding out
new things and learning about Perl.

There are a number of questions that I have anticipated:

Q: What is PerlRing?
A: [From the PerlRing homepage] Navigating the web has become
  increasingly difficult.  Doing a search at Alta Vista on

       "perl module" or "perl script"

  yields 10,000+ hits.  The purpose of PerlRing, therefore, is to cut
  through the noise and make it easier for people to find other Perl
  programming homepages.  It is intended as an addition to, not a
  replacement of, CPAN (how can you replace the irreplaceable).

Q: How does it differ from CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network -
  http://www.perl.com/CPAN/)?
A: [From the PerlRing homepage] CPAN is a wonderful undertaking,
  maintained by Jarkko Hietaniemi.  It is an archiving of everything
  Perl, and it is indeed Comprehensive.  So, if the world has CPAN,
  why do we need PerlRing?  Because they offer different things.

  CPAN offers the world many modules and scripts, and ports of Perl
  to non-standard platforms, and the latest and greatest news.  But
  it does it by having people submit their work, and then archiving,
  indexing and presenting it.  It is like walking into a distributed
  library devoted to your favorite genre (which is a truly great
  thing to have).

  If CPAN is like walking into a library, with the ability to see an
  author's creations, then PerlRing offers you the chance to walk
  into the author's home, and see where it all started from.  Not
  everyone submits their work to CPAN, and not everything is
  appropriate.  PerlRing provides the way to navigate from house to
  house, homepage to homepage, (hopefully) linking the world of Perl
  together.

Q: Isn't this a bit kitschie (pretentious or in poor taste)?
A: WebRings can be both pretentious and in poor taste.  My goal is to be
  neither of these things.  A WebRing, like the web itself, is merely
  another way of presenting and linking together data.  It will be no
  better or worse than what we, its members, make of it.

Q: How can I join?  Where can I find out more?
A: The PerlRing Homepage - http://www.netaxs.com/~joc/perlring.html

Best wishes for a Happy, Healthy New Year to all!

Regards,


joe
[email protected]

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