Re: The Case for a New Site for Perl Beginners

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:27:00 +0200, Wiggins d'Anconia  
<[email protected]> wrote:


> It really does seem like he just wants the learn.perl.org domain to
> point to the site he created. Of course this is the web, and if the
> content is that good it really doesn't matter what domain you have.
>
> Check the archives....
>
> http://danconia.org

I think that all three sites (perlmeme.org/, learn.perl.org and  
perl-begin.berlios.de/) look like most of the sites back when I had an  
Amiga 1200 :eek:

You can pick just about any website of any other "web" programming  
language and it's much much better. Not just from design point, but more  
importantly content.

Perl needs better marketing/PR. And beside sites for beginers it needs  
better  advocation to business type people.

It also has lot's of misconceptions behind it - that should also be  
addressed. Stuff like scripting language, slow, perl = cgi, cobol of the  
web ...

Now instead of insulting each other, maybe we can actualy start doing  
something about it in a more productive way?

BTW. Is there anyone on this list who is familiar with Public Relations?

PS. Don't get me wrong - there is much more to Perl than just web  
programmig, but it's one of it's bigest markets - also the one that  
brougth worlds attention to it.

Regards,
-- 
Aleksandar Petrović