Bill Ruppert

• Website: www.billruppert.com
• About: Perl programmer since 1996.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Whats wrong with the Perl Community?
  I follow lots of Perl blogs and I'm surprised you feel the discussion has been negative, or that folks have been saying negative things about Perl. What I've seen are people who are passionate about our favorite programming language struggling...
• Commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts
  I liked the Perl 7 idea, but it seems clear that Perl 5 is the end of the line (major number wise) for the Perl we use now. The future of Perl is Perl 6 and its successors, Perl 7,...
• Commented on On the version number succeeding Perl 5
  I love this idea....
• Commented on Perl case studies
  I'd love to see such a series. I assume it would be good for Perl, always nice to have some testimonials. As far as who goes, anyone is fine by me. There are many more small and medium businesses that...

Comment Threads

• CosmicNet commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts

  Lets just rename it to Peril, then go on rapid release cycle like FireFox. Then we can have a new major release every couple of months, and all the huge benefits that have come with that: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

  Of course, I'm joking.

  I can't help the feeling that if the effort from all these years of Perl 5/Perl 6 attrition, had been directed into Perl 6 as they naturally should have been, it would have been ready some time ago. Instead the dog chooses to keep chewing on it's own leg.

• Shlomi Fish commented on Whats wrong with the Perl Community?

  Hi, Just my two cents, in addition to what everyone here said: I think we can derive a lot of value from people who say negative things (even if it's destructive criticism), because it may tell us where we should improve. See what Lawrence Lessig wrote about it in his book Remix (which you can download and read from the Internet free-of-charge and which is highly enjoyable).

• Neil Bowers commented on Whats wrong with the Perl Community?

  I do it because I want perl to be Awesome.

• Steven Haryanto commented on Whats wrong with the Perl Community?

  At the risk of being repetitive (as in repeating other commenters), could you tell me which particular blog post(s)/comment(s) you view as containing "negative stuffs about Perl from the Perl community"?

  Because all I've read so far are things along the line of "X sucks/has problems, and here's how I think it could be solved." Perl community, as always, are searching for solutions to their problems.

  I'm seriously asking. I might be biased after all.
  

• tempire commented on Whats wrong with the Perl Community?

  Your presumption about other languages is incorrect; the issue is not about chosen language, it's about humans.

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