Re: [RFC] Adocacy Paradigm Shift: "Perl - the Language for Smart People"

On 03/08/2011 09:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Now, a lot of us have tried to market Perl 5 as a language that is "easy to
> learn" and "not so hard" and "not exactly Rocket science", but maybe we should
> admit that while one can master a small subset of it pretty quickly, it is
> still positively huge and has many dark corners and lots of small gotchas. So
> in essence saying something like "Perl - do you have the brains for it?"
> (possibly phrased better).

Reminds me of a lightning talk I was giving ten years ago :-)

"Why Perl Advocacy is a Bad Idea"

http://mag-sol.com/talks/advocacy.html

Not to be taken entirely seriously.

Dave...

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