I do believe Perl is very special and will not die at least during the time I live:) And building a strong community is very important for a language, also the outreach and well-planned documentation for less experienced developer. I kind of getting lost in the Perl version, mod Perl? Perl 5? 6?
Thanks for people who contributes to the community, such as arranging talks, meetings, documentations....these things really take time. Maria Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Adam Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:25:38 -0400>From: David Larochelle >> <[email protected]>>To: john saylor <[email protected]>>Cc: Boston Perl >> Mongers <[email protected]>>Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl community "The >> Rising Costs of Aging Perlers">Message-ID: >> <cae4b3qhpznbm-4aozecvdxpfkafpruaxffx9yxu1ytindek...@mail.gmail.com>>Content-Type: >> text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1>>No response?>>I hope you guys didn't think >> I was trolling. I was really hoping that>someone on this list could point to >> a problem space (e.g. bioinformatics)>or an application domain where they >> could make a compelling case for>starting a new project in Perl.>>I would be >> concerned about the future of the language if no one can make>this case. > All the code related to my doctoral dissertation has been in Perl. I would > say based on my experience (caution! n=1 !) Perl is very well suited for > academic Comp. Sci. Hardly the specific application domain you were asking > about but if anyone is starting a substantial academic project in order to > prototype an algorithm or some new technique I would certainly recommend > Perl.In my specific case I have developed some new data visualization > techniques which I have prototyped in Perl somewhat leveraging PDL.The idea > that a high level scripting language is good for algorithm development is > hardly new though.Perl just has many worthy competitors at this point. Sadly, > I think that given two equal choices, say Perl vs Python,people may make a > choice based more on fashion than anything else. Even if many more academic > projects were to be done in Perl I highly doubt that would increase Perl's > attractiveness to many people. > Having the "next Twitter" or other such cool thing written in Perl would be > the best thing to benefit the language.In the startup world I get the sense > that Perl certainly has some small footprint but it is dwarfed by Ruby and > Python and several others. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
