On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jason Clifford <ja...@ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 11:39 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > So, purely hypothetically... > > > > If a popular Linux magazine had given you the opportunity to write a > > 3000 word article giving a practical project-based demonstration of > > how Perl had moved on in the last ten years, what would you do? What > > would you write about? > > 10 years ago the popular view was the perl always ended up with an > unmaintainable code base and that it was not very easy to implement. > > I'd suggest something to show how the use of CPAN makes it easy to > produce big projects without writing lots of code and that the code > produced is easy to maintain. I'd also consider doing something on top > of Plack and a popular web framework. > > As someone who used to mostly code Perl but mostly doesn't anymore (and re-joined this list to find out more about what the state-of-the-art in the world of the Camel was) this is the kind of thing I'd be interested in. I do read those kind of magazines, but no idea if I'd be the target audience for the article. Matt