Apprenticeship Projects by Adam Turoff. Many smart people have large numbers of ideas for perl projects they personally don't have time for. Want to tackle one of these?

• (Don't remember whose project this was) perl power tools - reimplementing unix as perl- see turnstep's writeup.
• Michael G Schwern offerred: CPANTS - CPAN Testing System
• perl books project - Uri Guttman wants to mentor someone.
• Nathan Torkington has a number of ideas relating to developing Catagory Killers in perl. need to make it so people can't reimplement in, say, java. must use perl as extension language.
  • code analysis tools: changed lines of code between rcs/cvs logs; #include diagrams; what code uses this macro? linked lists? symbol tracking turn code into linked HTML: click on a symbol, see where it's used; block folding; mouseovers can have interesting effects.
  • obfuscation tools. 'nuff said.
  • pretty print: text::Autoformat tools
  • Competitive Analysis project- compare top apps, reimplement them in perl.
    • java, newly popular
    • c++ established
    • Python, claim of better engineering. 'httplib' is supposed to be better than LWP. LWP is crusty and old? Documentation is possibly better.
• Python Friendship Project- learn python, strengths/weaknesses. improve perl. improve python. work on projects together.
• perl documentation project:
  • learn.perl.org
  • beginners-workers-subscribe@perl.org
  • articles for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
  • topic guides, HOWTOs, ...

*sigh* gotta run and catch a plane. Back later with more..

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-DA

Edit: chipmunk 2001-06-17