[ I am actually subscribed to this list, but it goes to a folder I haven't read in almost a year. I am posting because this seemed the best place to mention this mildly interesting discovery, but perhaps this list has changed a lot since I last read it---I am a bit on the fringe of the Perl community these days due to the demands of my job. If this is off-topic, please feel free to flame me.]
My fiancee and her sister were playing "Trivial Pursuit Genus 5" tonight,
and they discovered a card in the SN (Science and Nature) section that
asked:
* What Web development language is an acronym for "pathological eclectic
rubbish lister"?
The card listed the answer as "Perl" (fortunately, not "PERL" ;).
I found two interesting advocacy lessons in this:
* The main stream in many cases still sees Perl as web-specific,
despite our efforts to remind people that this is ludicrous.
* The goofiness and downright good-natured humor of the Perl community
tends to be what gets mainstream people interested. Perhaps we can
harness that to make better connections with the main stream.
Anyway, I hope this message is helpful in some way.
-- bkuhn
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