[Petal] (Fwd) Perl meets ZPT - a new library for Perl

[William McKee]

Hi folks,

A couple weeks ago, I sent an email to announce Petal to Reuven Lerner, 
the author of the excellent "At the Forge" column in Linux Journal. He 
said I could repost his reply to the list. I thought you may find it 
interesting to see the meme spreading <g>.

William


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From:           	"Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il>
Date sent:      	Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:06:34 +0200
To:             	william@knowmad.com
Copies to:      	"Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il>
Send reply to:  	reuven@lerner.co.il
Subject:        	Perl meets ZPT - a new library for Perl

Hi, William.  Thanks so much for writing to me, and I apologize for
taking a while to get back to you.

In short: I'm increasingly impressed by ZPT, and I'm delighted to hear 
that
(a) there is a Perl implementation and (b) that the Zope folks are
cooperating in its development.

I'm definitely going to take a look at Petal!

You also said:

    William> With any luck perhaps Petal will bring you back around to
    William> writing about web development with Perl again. I do miss
    William> your articles about Perl. 

I still enjoy working in Perl, and use it on a very regular basis in
my own work.  But in the last year, I've worked on a number of
projects that required a more complete infrastructure than any
Perl-based system can provide.  So I've been working with Zope and
OpenACS a fair amount.  I definitely prefer Perl to Tcl, but I find
myself straddling the Perl/Python divide quite a lot lately, enjoying
both languages.

Don't worry, though -- within another month or two, I expect to start
writing about Web services and content management.  And you can be
sure that Perl will figure in there somewhere!

All the best,

Reuven
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