Hi all,
in case you have not read Su-Shee's
http://blogs.perl.org/users/su-shee/2011/01/and-suddenly-youre-hip.html , you
should because she gives many useful insights there. One thing she says there
is that Vim became popular among the hipsters because using it was marketed
as relatively
Hi Gabor,
On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 08:33:09 Gabor Szabo wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Joel Limardo
joel.lima...@forwardphase.com wrote:
Do we keep a list of current companies that are using Perl anywhere? I
just noticed that Sony Support appears to be using Perl:
I would agree that there could be many people who try to learn and do
difficult tasks. I guess when I started learning Perl that was one of
the things at the back of my mind. However it needs to be seen how
many people have an affinity to intellectual challenges that Perl has
to offer.
As you
Some stand on the idea that learning a new language is worth it these days
if it brings you to new programming paradigms and/or new possibilities. In
that light, I see Bash scripters could be seduced by Perl, but the gang in
the Cool-Factor-Zone/Ruby/Python are mostly inclined to move toward
On 03/08/2011 09:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Now, a lot of us have tried to market Perl 5 as a language that is easy to
learn and not so hard and not exactly Rocket science, but maybe we should
admit that while one can master a small subset of it pretty quickly, it is
still positively huge and has
