The Perl Journal seems to be focused more on Perl as an IT solution and as a place to introduce people to neat easy-to-use Perl technologies.

That being said, the days of articles about one-liners, advanced idioms and programming techniques seem to be passe'.

Does anyone know of an outlet for articles and discussion on high-level Perl programming. I think this is a fairly good place for this, I was just wondering about others.

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Re: Perl Journal for Advanced Programming?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Sep 12, 2001 at 01:08 UTC
    I think that's true about programming magazines in general, and its been that way for a few years. After the death (or retargeting) of most of the code magazines, I wrote for small newsletters for a few years. Now, I don't even know what's out there.

    I think online groups like this one has taken the place of those magazines as the primary source of study and inspiration.

    So it's our own fault that there's no money in writing anymore <g>

    —John

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Re: Perl Journal for Advanced Programming?
by Jouke (Curate) on Sep 14, 2001 at 15:57 UTC
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Re: Perl Journal for Advanced Programming?
by Hanamaki (Chaplain) on Sep 14, 2001 at 19:36 UTC
    For the more playfull and advanced stuff, maybe the fun-with-perl mailinglist is the place to be.

    The Perl Journal seems to be focused more on Perl as an IT solution and as a place to introduce people to neat easy-to-use Perl technologies.

    I am a long time subscriber of The Perl Journal and I was allways satisfied with its mixture of usefull articles, and never thought that TPJ was focused on IT solutions. Some articles like Sean M. Burke's "Braille" article I missed the first time because I wasn't very interessted in this topic, but when I actually read this article I found a nice introduction to look-behind and other new RegEx features. Don't look only at the title of the articles; even if the look like IT-Solutions, you may learn a lot even if you are not interessted in this specific solution.

    That said, I have to admit that I am not sure wether to renew my subscription. Looking at the TOC of issue 21, Fall 2001 of The Perl Journal , TPJ seems to be pretty thined out, while the subscription rate went too much up (especially for overseas subscriber), because you have to subscribe to Sys Admin as well -- a magazine I am not interessted in. If The Perl Journal was bundeld together with Dr.Dobb's which seems to be published by the same group I probably would renew my subscription with further thinking, but Sys Admin will be too expensive without much merit for me.

    Well The Perl Journal is in transision time, so it is too early to judge its future and I may re-subcribe if the next issues will look not that thined out and the topics covered will remain the nice mixture as before.

    Hanamaki
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