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Is there some concentrated effort to promote Perl around here? I've been a regular for years and Perl comes up...well, maybe once every 2 months. The last few w
by martythemaniak 17y ago
Is there some concentrated effort to promote Perl around here? I've been a regular for years and Perl comes up...well, maybe once every 2 months. The last few week has seen about 1/day.
- icey 17y agoPerl has kind of become the Common Lisp of the videogame generation.
- icey 17y agoHmmm, evidently I made my point poorly. All I was getting that is that Perl is a pretty cool language that runs the risk of becoming an obscure language because progress on it has the appearance of moving so slowly. For whatever it's worth, I don't think that it really is moving all that slowly, but Perl 6 was announced almost a decade ago (2001) and it has all the appearances of being a pretty bureaucratic process. I know there are a ton of really sharp people working on it... just like there are a lot of sharp people working on CL. Until they get their PR house in order though, I honestly think that Perl will go the way of CL.
- berntb 17y agoWell, the relevance for "golf" to anything is debated already inside the Perl community. I don't really think there are more or less Perl stories if you compare to a few months ago. Edit: And I might also add that it would be easy to find more interesting stuff on that blog, I don't understand why people vote this up.
- abesapien 17y agoI agree I very rarely see articles posted here about Perl. Probably the reason that you have been seeing more Perl posts in general around the net lately is due to the Perl IronMan Challenge which started at YAPC 2009. It's an initiative to promote the language. http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/