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there are 397 basic perl OP's. Giving each a week? That's take looooooong.

I wasn't suggesting we do them all. If there was any interest from p5p, we could pick the most critical or convoluted ops to start.

There is also no reason to restrict ourselves to one weekend or even one week. If a chosen op produces lots of interest and makes good progress, keep it going; otherwise if no interest, kick it to touch and pick another. Or perhaps post half a dozen and just let people hack on them until they've either reached some level that is suitable for feeding back to p5p and then replace it; or if no good progress is made, replace.

I admit it was a half-baked idea as presented; but I wasn't going to waste too much time on it unless there was a reasonable level of interest; and not too much opposition.

So far I'd sum up the interest as: Meh.

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Re^3: (Placeholder) Imagine!
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 30, 2016 at 21:24 UTC

    I think it's very interesting. I fear that this site, despite the surplus of brain power, is not ripe with the requisite skills—core Perl stuff, history, entanglements, backcompat, roadmap, and more that would make the threads heavier with questions than answers—and that without nearly total buy-in from p5p, it would be an exercise in self-flagellation.

    I didn't comment previously because as interesting as it is, I am not one of the few who could help or push it forward.

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      I fear that this site, despite the surplus of brain power, is not ripe with the requisite skills—core Perl stuff, history, entanglements, backcompat, roadmap, and more that would make the threads heavier with questions than answers

      I think that there are a surprising number of people here with pretty good C skills; but lacking Perl internals/XS skills. This might be a way to improve that situation.

      without nearly total buy-in from p5p, it would be an exercise in self-flagellation.

      I think it would only require one p5p guy to be interested to allow us to make a start; and if it went anywhere, more might join in or be won over. Or not.

      I didn't comment previously because as interesting as it is, I am not one of the few who could help or push it forward.

      Would you like to learn?

      It would be nice if the pool of skills was expanded in a low pressure, as-time-permits fashion. If enough people were interested, we could feed off each other to improve our collective skills.

      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The enemy of (IT) success is complexity.
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Would you like to learn?

        I would; kinda, sorta. 30+ years ago I was trained in CS but I abandoned it for almost 15 years because I didn’t enjoy the available languages. I only came back because Perl fit me and made it all fun (and I was tired of being a poor, artist chump). I would follow, and perhaps pick-up skills, but I could not be a self-starter here and my insight would be limited. I know, again, because I spent 5 hours over the last couple days reading and messing with ExtUtils::XSpp trying to get the most trivial class in DCMTK to work and it just was not sinking in enough to pursue further.

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