I'd agree with you on python but I can say the Ruby community is packed full of nutballs and is very entertaining. Probably not too surprising considering ruby's perlish origins. So perhaps chalk that up to perl too ;)
Written on my phone On Nov 23, 2012 6:57 PM, "Uri Guttman" <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote: > On 11/23/2012 08:30 PM, James Laver wrote: > >> On 24 Nov 2012, at 00:36, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote: >> > > yapc has yet to be properly copied. no one else delivers more bang for >>> the buck and fun as well. >>> >>> mjd invented lightning talks and they are at many confs now, not just >>> lang ones. another perl invention with no credit given. >>> >> >> How are these perl inventions? They are community inventions. >> > > perl forms the core of the community and attracts the developers who add > to the community. it is hard to separate them. i have told this to people > about why i like perl and why perl has so many smart hackers. any community > that would allow Acme:: and lauds it, has something special there. it stems > from larry and timtowtdi and encouraging and allowing for creativity. humor > is a part of that. i know larry fairly well and we all have seen his sense > of humor. i met guido once at oscon and he seemed to have no fun even when > putting a pie in dan sugalski's face. ask a python coder about the fun of > the lang. ask them if they would sanction an Acme:: like name space. even > the choice of Acme is funny! > > our community has more fun. that is a win for perl. :) > > uri > >