> The Perl-KGB-elite has got to go, and a free republic must replace
> it.
I wouldn't go as far as your entire post, neither in form nor content,
but I do have concerns about the sociopsycho(patho)logy of the Perl
community.
Personally I'm very concerned about the 'every RFC should have an
implementation section' near-requirement. Or the 'if you're not coding
the internals your input is most likely bullshit' stance of some of
our self-appointed 'leaders'. Having been programming for 15 years
now, I have seen proof, again and again, that the ability to code
doesn't correlate with the ability to design.
Many valuable programmers use Perl in very competent fashions, solving
- sometimes - very complex problems. Sometimes they encounter a
situation that proves that this or that language feature is
useful. That they should drop everything they're doing and spend the
next quarter mastering the internals of Perl, just in order to code
the said feature - indeed in order for having a chance of being heard
by some - and then, when they're done, probably return to their
previous concerns, and probably never use the hard-gained knowledge,
seems to me like a complete waste of time, energy and intelligence.
On a different, yet related issue: had there been a perl6-sociology
list, I would have submitted the following:
All newbies are not necessarily 'clueless newbies'
There.
--
Jean-Louis Leroy
http://users.skynet.be/jll
