Re: Where is the Perl Buzz?

2007-10-03 Thread benh
I don't think that this has anything to do with Perl specifically, I think that anything that doesn't change significantly for 10 years is not going to be seen as flashy. It's not that it's bad, it's just the way that things work. The VW bug was a great car, but after a production run of some 70

Re: Where is the Perl Buzz?

2007-10-03 Thread George Magklaras
Quoting the Free On Line Dictionary: trend - a general direction in which something tends to move; Define the something and the area of movement and then you will be talking business. Is there a trend of developers moving to Ruby and Python? Sure. Is there a trend of developers that

Re: Where is the Perl Buzz?

2007-10-03 Thread Andy Lester
Like I replied to Joel's post... There's plenty of buzz about Perl. See our freshly released website http://perlbuzz.com/ From our Why Perlbuzz? page at http://perlbuzz.com/why- perlbuzz.html : --quote-- We hear it all the time: Is Perl still around? I thought that everyone moved on to

Perl as a second language

2007-10-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
if we are already talking advocacy, I'd appreciate your help here. I am trying to put together a one day long training for Java/C*/etc... programmers to learn Perl as a second language. I don't want to convert them to use Perl instead of their primary language. This is a decision that need to be

Re: Perl as a second language

2007-10-03 Thread Bruce Alderson
So I would really like to hear what does a Java/C*/etc..programmer with several years of experience need to do to improve his working conditions that he would be better off doing with Perl after just 1 day of training... Hi, I've been developing systems stuff in C/C++ and web/GUI stuff

Re: Where is the Perl Buzz?

2007-10-03 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:02:06AM -0600, Danny Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Very nice work Andy. Thank you. It's very specifically an advocacy site, but outside the Perl Foundation auspices. I welcome feedback, stories, etc from anyone. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: Where is the Perl Buzz?

2007-10-03 Thread Danny Brian
Very nice work Andy. One place I've noticed a potential source of good articles is a Google news search: http://news.google.com/news?q=perl In particular, there are about 5 or 6 recent ZDNet White Papers of Perl success stories by way of O'Reilly Media. These include the Oxford