I just added a concluding slide to my updated Perl Myths talk. Having comprehensively debunked some myths with hard facts about perl and its ecosystem, I wanted to end with a slide that summarized some truths.
I liked the slide text so much I wanted to share it with you:
Perl:
has a massive library of reusable code
has a culture of best practice and testing
has a happy welcoming growing community
has a great future in Perl 5 and Perl 6
is a great language for getting your job done
for the last 20 years, and the next 20!
It would make more sense after seeing the talk, but I think it stands well on its own as a summary of Perl.
My professional profile
The talk might help, as otherwise that parses as ‘these are five perl myths’. :)
Comment by Stray Taoist — September 10, 2009 @ 1:02 pm |
Good point. I’ve tweaked the wording to clarify that these are truths! Thanks.
Comment by TimBunce — September 10, 2009 @ 3:32 pm |
My thanks to Barbie for suggesting I end the talk with a positive slide!
Comment by TimBunce — September 10, 2009 @ 3:40 pm |
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Pingback by Eric Wilhelm (ericwilhelm) 's status on Thursday, 10-Sep-09 17:04:30 UTC - Identi.ca — September 10, 2009 @ 5:04 pm |
I made a picture of the poem using Leximancer (http://www.leximancer.com) which is itself a product containing quite a lot of Perl. The picture is at http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8715/perl.png
Comment by kd — September 10, 2009 @ 11:15 pm |