On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:25:17AM +0000, Peter Sergeant wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Mark Blackman <m...@blackmans.org> wrote: > > > On 27 Nov 2012, at 07:05, Peter Sergeant <p...@clueball.com> wrote: > > > > > Great! Now, any ideas how we further Perl outreach? > > > > Evangelism in non-perl-specific outlets. > > > I think this is the right direction. > > Perl is often cited as an exceptional glue language. Perhaps putting > together examples of small Perl scripts that pull in different moving parts > to do something useful or pretty?
Muahhahaha. Yeah, sure, Perl is excellent in glueing things together. Just don't show your code with shells out with a one-liner to a Perl community member, or else he will point out you could also pull in a dozen libraries and write 40 lines of code and do it all in Perl. Abigail