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Andrew Solomon

  • About: I teach Perl.
  • Commented on Promoting Perl
    I have a great deal of experience providing training in various forms from lectures to part-time courses and 3-day workshops. I've found that the most successful formula is to train new hires as part of the on-boarding process. Booking.com is...
  • Commented on Promoting Perl
    Thanks for bringing this up Dean. As I read through it I was composing a comment which - as I scrolled down - is almost exactly what Robert had already written :-) The only addition I have to make is...
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  • Robert Rothenberg commented on Promoting Perl

    Andrew's point about API support is a good one.

    I'd like to add that while it's great to have "killer apps" written in Perl that are widely used, most companies won't care whether they are written in Perl. Their developers won't be looking at the source code or submitting patches.

    Anyhow, if we want to promote Perl, then the best way is train new developers to learn the language (train developers in companies, provide training courses, not just at YAPC but other open-source/web conferences).

    By training, I mean in modern Perl (Moo/Moose, plus Type::T…

  • Dean commented on Promoting Perl

    Training (and certifications) have a powerful network effect. Thats a great contribution.

  • kd commented on Promoting Perl

    Perl has a couple of major strengths [1], and some problems.

    Personally I've found that there's no normal programming activity I can't do with perl that I can't do with any other similarly positioned language. But there's not a lot of perl being taught these days, and a lot of people teaching perl don't really have the capability to do so. I've spent the last decade trying to get my programming game as disciplined as I can. I would have done it in another language, but perl is fun, and I'm a self-teaching type person with a non-typical programming background. Perl is really wel…

  • Yuki Kimoto commented on Promoting Perl

    > If you had $10,000 to promote Perl - what would you do with it?

    I open small Perl workshop in 10-20 people by Borrowing rental space Regularly.

    And We talk about Perl each others and develop Perl open source or service.

    And write blog about the meeting with some pictures.

  • KES commented on Promoting Perl

    Just a thought: Maybe we do not see often contribution in perl because projects just work. They just do not require 24/7 attention after implementation.

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