Earl

• Website: earlruby.org
• About: I blog about Perl and Open Source.

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• Commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?
  I have been using Perl since 1998. I love working with Perl, and I use it for almost all of my programming. I have a modest proposal for the Powers That Be: Call the next release of Perl5 “Perl7”, and...
• Commented on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
  Seems like the obvious answer is to start posting blog articles that link to good tutorials on modern Perl programming techniques, and to contact people hosting old, outdated pages and ask them to update the info or take it down....

Comment Threads

• barricas commented on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)

  Have the 'known good' tutorials link each other, or perhaps have learn.perl.org link them and perhaps provide a 'certified good tutorials' image link. Automate this as much as possible.

• BooK commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?

  This graph shows the number of Perl conferences / workshops / hackathons over time. If you look at the 2008-2012 period, there have been 127 such events in 5 years. That’s 2 per month on average, over 5 years! No so bad for the global community of a dying language.

  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 Per…

• brian d foy commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?

  Well, you can use ROOT from Perl under certain circumstances and setups. :)

• Steffen Mueller commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?

  brian: I doubt it’d be that hard to get working on your Mac!

• Olof Stockhaus commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?

  The only way I can see Perl 5 getting a new major version is by changing it’s name. The reason for that is the existence of Perl 6 and Larry’s decision to stick to that name for the language.

  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 …