Bill Ricker wrote:
Three-part article by VM Brasseur @vmbrasseur
The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers
I guess this was worth writing down, but weren't we all aware that the
practitioners of Perl are aging and not enough junior developers are
being created to sustain the language as a going
A few years ago I interviewed with a big-name company that said
perl is forbidden on their projects. The interview was with the
engineering manager. and it seemed like he was driving that decision.
He said perl was too messy, too many ways to do things and
no set way to do things, so you end up
BEGIN {}
On 7/22/13 19:14 , Bill Ricker wrote:
http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2013/07/22/the-rising-costs-of-aging-perlers-part-1-the-data/
this was good and interesting. not earthshaking but nicely done.
in the sweep of history [as i know it], i view perl as a stepping stone
on the
Hi,
I've been a lurker on the list for quite a number of years now, and
don't often write, but in this case I wanted to throw out some thoughts.
I work for Harvard Extension School (HES). We used to offer a Perl class,
and it was reasonably popular - we had (have?) some bioinformatics
On 07/23/2013 11:02 AM, Jan Jackson wrote:
However, when our previous Perl instructor moved to New Hampshire to
run an organic farm, there was no one interested in taking over the
class, so it ended, and Perl hasn't been taught at HES for some years
now.
I did submit a proposal to take over
Stevan Little's talk Perl is not dead, it is a
deadendhttps://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-is-not-dead-it-is-a-dead-endand
his recent follow on Perl
- The Detroit of Scripting
Languageshttps://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-the-detroit-of-scripting-languages
are
apropos.
On Tue, Jul
Let's also then pose the question the other way around... If the
Extension School were to bring back the Perl class, how many people would
be interested in taking it, either of less experienced programmers on the
list here or people you know? Can we also show that the demand exists?
I'd like to ask a couple of questions on getting core dumps from crashed and
otherwise unresponsive processes that run unattended on Windows machines.
Here's what I've got so far: I've registered a Perl script as the 'Debugger'
value for this registery key (
