On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Bill Ward <b...@wards.net> wrote: > I think Perl 6 may be the death of Perl.
Let's not go down that discussion. That just brings us unnecessary bad feelings within our community. > But really, it boils down to marketing. Perl has no marketing behind it, > and in fact most of the people in the Perl community seem to view marketing > as beneath them. IMHO most of them also think that marketing equals promotion or even just advertisement and that it involves lying to other people. In fact marketing starts by understanding the needs of the (potential) customers[1], then changing your product or the perception about your product to fit their needs. Which will frighten even more people in the community :) BTW in our case the product is not only perl but also CPAN and GreyPAN and all the things around those. So the answer - or one of the answers - might be as "simple" as creating a "beautiful, easily installable content management system that uses Web 2.0 techniques and is usable from smartphones". [1] The best "customers" are us and the companies we work for. Gabor
