On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Bill Ward <b...@wards.net> wrote: > I wasn't shitting on Perl 6. Oh, then sorry for my wording.
> The technology is fine. But we (collectively, the Perl community) suck at > marketing. The perception I hear everywhere I go is that Perl is a dead-end > language, and will soon go the way of Fortran or COBOL. It's too late to > change that. But maybe if Perl 6 were released under a totally new name it > could gain traction the way Ruby has done. Sure, Perl needs some technological improvements and I think people involved in p5p have been doing some nice things lately at an increasing speed. Many modules on CPAN also need improvements. But even what we have today we could achieve much better results if the perception of people was better. With my original question I wanted to know what technological and perception related issues people see. We already got some material but I'd be happy to see more comments. Especially from those who work with people who are not involved in the Perl community. How do your peers and your bosses see Perl? I don't think it is too late. I think we just need to get up and start talking to people outside of the Perl community. That's what I have been trying to push forward with varrying success via the TPF Events group. https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?events Gabor
