Re: Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere

2013-02-01 Thread eashton
On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:43 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: An impressive list of Perl success stories would surely do no harm. Well, ORA has a few at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.html Perl is a niche language which is a way of saying it has a

Re: Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere

2013-02-06 Thread eashton
On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:55 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: So I think it is better to encourage post-Feminist / post-Buffy / post-Friends / etc. female hackers’ heroines. Trying to tout my own horn, here is some ( hopefully ) entertaining and amusing post-Buffy / post-Feminist

Re: Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere

2013-02-06 Thread eashton
On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Jacinta Richardson jar...@perltraining.com.au wrote: I don't think that Perl's decline in popularity is all that related to why Perl has too few women in its communities. Over time, my training classes have probably averaged 25-30% women (which is on-par with