On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 01:10 AM, Aaron Sherman wrote:
If you want to talk about making Perl more popular, here are some ideas ranked in order of how likely I think they are to succeed in terms of large scale adoption.
* Help make CPANPLUS work well with all extant package managers * Work on Perl 6 / Parrot / Pugs * Write documentation * Review / suggest edits to existing documentation * Lobby more large companies to formally support local user groups
Wow, these ideas will generate so much more buzz than certification! (^_^)
Actually, think about it. If certification causes so many people on this list to send their neurons into overdrive, perhaps if it was *out there* it would create the same kind of controversy, and hence Perl would get maddening amounts of press as well and maybe our debate could move onto Good Morning America or Fox & Friends. If this list is any indicator of its potential for controversy, then we need certification. The ensuing public battles will make Perl a household name.
I failed this time, that is clear. But I learned something about how I relate to people who relate to teh world as a list of what is impossible.
You're mis-characterizing the people on this list. No one is thinking in
those terms, as far as I've seen. We're just being very mildly
pragmatic.
Indeed. Keeping Perl as an island of elitism, which certification would threaten to obviate, is a self-serving, self-aggrandizing, self-preservative instinct at its finest. Caveat being that when Perl goes the way of the Atari and the TI99 (a machine far ahead of its time), these rare skills shall also become rarely required, desired, or considered - and from my perspective, there will be no newbies with the initial grounding in Perl to champion my next Perl based company, and without a doubt it will vanish from the lower cost developing world's CS studies leaving me stranded and incapable of becoming the next Perl based billionaire. So do we want to protect the rarity of your skills, or the possibility of my millions! (^_^)
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