Re: The Case for a New Site for Perl Beginners
[email protected] (Shlomi Fish)
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On Wednesday 30 August 2006 01:32, Aleksandar Petrovic wrote: > 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: Hmmm... interesting. Personally, I think that perlmeme.org does not look very bad. In any case, I'm well aware of the problematic design of perl-begin.berlios.de. At the moment, I'm looking for another design to rip (perhaps a skin of a popular open-source CMS, or CSS Zen Garden, or OSWD). However, if anyone can refer me to a professional web designer who will come up with an original design, that would be even better. > > 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. > What content do you think is missing? > Perl needs better marketing/PR. And beside sites for beginers it needs > better advocation to business type people. > Right. > 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 ... > Or write-only code, etc. I recall an article about "Perl Myths" on perl.com back then: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/01/10PerlMyths.html > Now instead of insulting each other, maybe we can actualy start doing > something about it in a more productive way? That was my original intention. > > BTW. Is there anyone on this list who is familiar with Public Relations? > I only attended a presentation on "The Hacker's Guide to Marketing". > 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. OK. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [email protected] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets.