Thank you very much!
How to list ways to learn Perl by Earl C. Ruby III.
Question: does Google have any mechanism for SEO that includes a way for web admins to flag their own sites as "historical" or "outdated" or anything like that? Just curious.
I'll be happy to click on a "promoteperl.com" link or do anything else I can to help Google get their results straightened out. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
-MC
]]>For example learn.perl.org doesn't actually use the text "Perl tutorial" on the front page, which is bad if people are searching for a "perl tutorial" instead of trying to "learn perl"
Perl tutorial is tucked into a keywords meta tag, but (using a SEO checking tool) in comparison the term "tutorial" is the second most popular term on the Leeds site with "perl tutorial" being the most used 2 word phrase. In comparison the "learn" site concentrates on "learn perl", "perl learning" and "install perl".
So while "learn" has a Page Rank of 7 compared to "Leeds" PR 5, it is very unlikely to turn up in results for "perl tutorial" because that isn't the term that it is targeting. Try "learn perl" instead and you'll see it right away.
I am by no means an SEO expert, but it seems that if Google Trends says that "Perl tutorial" is what people are searching for then that should be what the "learn" site should be using.
(and of course this applies to any of the other great tutorial sites out there)
]]>Yahoo bots do look at it, but they don't count as anything towards perceived relevancy.
]]>There’s also a timeline of Perl events available. The full list is maintained in a crappy YAML file, as the comprehensive list of all Perl conferences, workshops and hackathons.
A lot of the events attract new people to Perl… or to Perl events, at least. This can be seen at YAPC (NA and EU) every time the person doing José Castro’s talk (“How to make the most of a YAPC”) asks the people in the audience to “raise [their] hand if this is [their] first YAPC”.
I’ve already listed 12 events for 2013, but that’s only the ones I currently know of. After all, I added OSDC.tw 2011 and 2012 to my file only yesterday…
Note that the list of conferences for 2013 includes two brand new Perl workshops: the first Swiss Perl Workshop and the first Polish Perl Workshop. I’m not worried about our community liveliness.
]]>That only leave the renaming option open. The renaming option “Perl 5” -> “Perl5” I suggested earlier would probably only work inside parts of the Perl 5 community so we can forget about that.
At the same time we want to keep Perl as Perl, so I don’t believe in the Chocolate/Citrus/DWIM/Strawberry/… Perl strategy either, at least not as a version bumper strategy. I guess we could fork it “the C way”, i.e by naming it Perl++ or Perl# even though it feels like a cheap marketing trick to mimic the C variant naming schemes.
]]>For what I do, v5 works. I hope perl never dies away in my lifetime - new version or not. Love perl!
]]>What?
Look, I remember I started doing my first computer program on a programmable calculator in high school. I have exhausted all the APIs of the calculator and so what remains available to me are the infinite possibilities of how to solve a problem in the most efficient means. Now, when i moved the world of PC computer programming, I AM a bit surprised there. I am surprised that there seems to be an ever growing set of API and no matter how much I waited, these set of APIs keeps on growing. NOW, now this bothers me. This bothers me, because it would be difficult to create “true art” if the set of APIs keeps on changing — and displacing older APIs, etc.
WE DO NOT NEED Perl6 to come out in order to keep perl alive. Perl5 right now, is already very powerful — there is nothing more that you can ask from it. It has all the expressions that your mind needs and that is more than enough.
If you want to dig deeper and expand, then you code in C, and from there you have infinite possibilities.
The rapid expansion of APIs out there is creating a herd of powerful idiots. Baptize yourself with the first few pages of Donald Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming”. The most powerful engine you have is right there between your ears. yo!
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