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From:
Carl Friedberg
Date:
July 24, 2000 08:55
Subject:
RE: Perl version of Python Enhancement Proposals [PEP]
Message ID:
41A7390127B5D1119C2500E02909414BF38A43@bohr.esb.com
Russ, your description of "technical osmosis" rings true for me. I'd like to
keep tabs on the evolving perl6 -- perhpas finding a niche where I can
contribute.

I'm hoping "IETF" as a model just means a consensus based on a "written"
(i.e. publicly posted) document. Take the good part of it...

Carl Friedberg, carl@comets.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Allbery [mailto:rra@stanford.edu]
...
I live and breath by technical osmosis; it's how I pick up almost
everything I'm interested in.  Technical osmosis is the practice of
joining a newsgroup or mailing list for some topic, 90% of which you don't
understand, and just reading through it, letting the traffic go by, at
least reading the subjects and trying to get a superficial understanding,
day after day, for an extended period of time.  Unified development lists
are wonderful for this; from years of reading p5p, I now understand Perl
in a way that I never would have if I had to sort through tons of separate
lists, only subscribe to half or less of them, and never have a unified
understanding of what's going on.
...
Thirdly, so that the generalists can see how all those cool ideas that
were being talked about earlier actually came out in the end.  I like
this.  This I think would work for me.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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