Hey, don't knock it, it might work well: the new chair could mandate that all commissioning pitches should be written in perldoc, or maybe Template Toolkit, and we switch off the telly and radio transmitters and force everyone to download their shows from CPAN.
perl -MCPAN -e 'install BBC::Drama::EastEnders' isn't too hard to learn is it? Brendan ;-) (PS far be it from me to suggest a link between the perl ethos of "laziness, impatience, and hubris" and how it might apply to such a role!) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Bowden Sent: 29 November 2006 15:26 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Re: (freeing) content is king > Surely, the Chairman decides what he can do. > I see no reason at all why the Chairman couldn't hack perl. > It's just that most Chairman don't. Well the BBC Chair of the Governers role (soon to be in charge of the BBC Trust - more arms length from the BBC) doesn't - I believe - specify Perl skills, and the chair's employers (essentially the government) might be less than impressed if that's all they did all day, when they should be regulating the BBC ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
