WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Perl SPEAKER: Tom Anderson of the Perl Mongers WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, April 8th, 2003 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. NBLUG meetings are open to all and are free of charge. Hello NBLUG Members! For the month of March, we have a meeting on April 8th on Perl. That is right! Perl- the language known by some as: "The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" and by others as: "Practical Extraction and Report Language" while plenty of other words can be used to expand Perl as an acronym or you can choose to not expand it at all. Learning about Perl can make your life easier. You can automate certain sysadmin tasks, create new network services, create new web forms and server-side applications. With Perl, you can dominate the universe and make the world a happier place for all people. I strongly suggest learning more about Perl, and what better place than with friends and associates at NBLUG! Come visit us at or normal meeting place at ORA in Sebastapol, to hear Tom Anderson speak about Perl and how you can use it. Tom Anderson is from the Sonoma County Perm Mongers group ( http://sonoma.pm.org/ ) and we have other URLs for you to check out if you want to know more about Tom and Perl before the meeting: Tom is presently working for Agilent, and has found Perl to be a useful tool in the workplace. I could give you more information about Tom and the meeting, but that would be like giving away the secret ending to a story. ;-) Related URLs for this meeting: http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://tomacorp.com/ and information about a spud gun!: http://tomacorp.com/ballistics/ballistics.html ;-) See you at the meeting! -ME -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM$/IT$/LS$/S/O$ !d--(++) !s !a+++(-----) C++$(++++) U++++$(+$) P+$>+++ L+++$(++) E W+++$(+) N+ o K w+$>++>+++ O-@ M+$ V-$>- !PS !PE Y+ PGP++ t@-(++) 5+@ X@ R- tv- b++ DI+++ D+ G--@ e+>++>++++ h(++)>+ r*>? z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ decode: http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ about: http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html