On 4/12/08 13:01, Abigail wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 01:33:13PM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:45:02AM +0000, David Dorward wrote:
Léon Brocard wrote:
Did anyone go to the London Perl Workshop this weekend?
About 200.
Including me. It was very well organised and had some great talks.
Aren't most Perl events (more than 20 worldwide in 2008, more than
10 already announced for 2009) only reaching people *within* the Perl
community?
So, if you think that "Perl is dying" (which, BTW, I don't agree with,
and haven't agree with for more than 10 years. The cries "Perl is dying"
I've heard ever since I joined my first Perl community in 1995 - and it
still isn't dead.), then I don't think the number of conferences, or
the number of attendees swings the argument one way or the other.
Very true.
I myself came from a graphic design bacground, using technologies like
XHTML, Javascript, Flash and Lingo (why?). When I started looking at
server-side technologies, naturally I picked-up PHP as that's what
everyone (my colleagues) were talking about. A funny thing happened
cause after about 3 months or so learning PHP and hacking on PHP
projects, I found Perl. Since then I never looked back. I sometimes
still delve into PHP but I have loved the Perl way of doing things and
found the former a bit weird.
The other thing I can say is that by learning Perl's "ways", it has
developed my overall programming knowledge and affected even the way I
write [Java|Action]Script which to me is a bonus.
So for me, it's still going strong and if anything at all it would be
helpful to have web frameworks (Catalyst et al) that are easier to
pick-up so, for instance, us "designers" can build cool-sh*t without
first re-wiring our brains ;-) It's not much of a problem with me as
like Sylar (please forgive the Heroes reference), I like looking into
the brains of things to see how they work... but I can't say the say for
my designer colleagues.
Adeola.
