On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 05:03:49 -0500 > From: Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The Perl Color? > > Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: > *> > *>Because there are no perl nuns ? > *>(seems to me that a discussion with "monks" necessarily > *>involves "brothers") > > I registered the domain 'perlnuns.org' a long time ago but it never really > got going due to a decided lack of women and interest. It was likely for > the best though as perl already has enough of a religious and cultish > cachet.
For some reason, I hadn't really put much thought into the fact that "monks" implied a male-only group in that context. Cue rerun of Life of Brian. I can't imagine wanting to join a "for the girls" Perl group, since I've not met anyone in any Perlmongers group that has made any negative, patronising or surprised comments about the fact that I'm a girl who does Perl. In my experience, it's only non-techies that get shocked by it. Besides, "mongeress" just sounds silly. Ali -- Ali Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ali.anarres.org/ http://www.livejournal.com/user/ali_anarres/ 0777 32 96 156
