Re: Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere

On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:55 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
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> So I think it is better to encourage post-Feminist / post-Buffy /
> post-Friends / etc. female hackers=92 heroines. Trying to tout my own =
horn, here
> is some ( hopefully ) entertaining and amusing post-Buffy / =
post-Feminist online
> literature I've written:


So self-promoting some sort of cringeworthy fantasy fem-hero fiction is =
somehow illuminating? You missed the point...

What we want to believe and what is real are often two different things, =
just as the toddlers clung to what they believed was the right answer =
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the actual right answer. These are the lies we tell ourselves much like =
the term 'meritocracy' is so highly touted, so firmly held as a virtue =
of open source and, yet, if closely examined isn't really quite true if =
we're being completely honest with ourselves. When Larry gave the YAPC =
keynote in STL in 2002 which was on the theme of more women in perl =
using Tolkien's pantheon of heroic women I cringed, not because I don't =
enjoy the genre, but because if anyone needs fewer fictional ideas about =
women it would be those in the audience nodding their heads.=20

In order for change to occur, you're going to have to challenge what you =
believe to be are unassailable truths.

e.=