One idea is to bundle a package of tools and example scripts
much like what used to be called KPL for Kids Programming Language.
by Microsoft, now called Phrogram, I think.  Making Perl
more accessible and fun for newbies, and kids.

One of the comments mentioned developing more Games with Perl.
One of my pipe dreams is to be able to use Perl, instead of or as well as Python,
to program and control Blender 3D and its game engine.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Henning Michael Møller Just [mailto:henning.just@datagraf.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:30 AM
To: Andy Lester; advocacy@perl.org
Subject: RE: Decentralize, diversify and colonize

An intelligent collection of thoughts, definitely. The "colonize" section reminded me of something that I heard at work: "Well, we need to continue using Perl, otherwise we'd be f*****!" I know that's viewing the power of Perl from the other side, but with a small development department you really can't have a better tool than the Perl programming language.

That's my 50 ører (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98re ;-)

/Henning


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lester [mailto:andy@petdance.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:06 AM
To: advocacy@perl.org
Subject: Decentralize, diversify and colonize

I've collected many of my thoughts on how Perl needs to move forward.

http://perlbuzz.com/2008/05/perl-decentralize-diversify-colonize.html

xoxo,
Andy


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