Talk:Perl

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I'd like to import the "good article" version of wikipedia's Perl entry. Is there an efficient way of importing articles from there? or do I have to copy/paste the source? --Joey Kelly

Unfortunately, no, there isn't. See: CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles, which I am about to fix up as there seems to be a demand for it... --Larry Sanger 16:58, 14 February 2007 (CST)

Now I'm really curious what "the arbitrary limitations of many scripting languages at the time" were. Really. --Markus Baumeister 16:41, 7 March 2007 (CST)


Article Checklist for "Perl"
Workgroup category or categories Computers Workgroup [Editors asked to check categories]
Article status Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article? Yes
Basic cleanup done? No
Checklist last edited by Georg Heidenreich 22:53, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

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I've been lurking around for quite a while and I thought I should finally contribute. When I wrote the new Perl page, I tried to eliminate all wording from the original stump that could be construed as originating from WP (sorry, now we'll never know what the "arbitrary limitations" are ;) ). I actually have one advantage: since I currently live in China, it is very awkward to even read WP (anonymizers, proxies, etc) *) so I wasn't even tempted to copy anything from them.
I wrote this first draft on my private mediawiki, some of the templates are of course missing outside of CZ, e.g. my citation style is way off. Since I am relocating to Europe soon (temporaily for 14 months), starting June 10 I won't be able to use my computers for several weeks. That is a good time for all of you to mess it up thoroughly ;) !
*) this is how I happened to stumble over CZ in the first place - now of course I'm convinced it is the better way --Georg Heidenreich 23:19, 30 May 2007 (CDT)