Back in September 2010 I wrote a piece criticising the way that Perl had been described in a recent issue of Linux Format. In a response to my article, the editor wrote: And, believe it or not, I do care about Perl. I met Paul Fenwick a few months ago, and he agreed to write […]
Category: Marketing
Perl Vogue T-Shirts
In Pisa I gave a lightning talk about Perl Vogue. People enjoyed it and for a while I thought that it might actually turn into a project. I won’t though. It would just take far too much effort. And, besides, a couple of people have pointed out to be that the real Vogue are rather […]
Marketing Perl
Sometimes people ask me why Perl marketing is so important. This morning I came across an excellent example of the kind of thing that we’re trying to counter. In the current issue of Linux Format, there’s an article about building a Twitter client in the bash shell. It’s written by Nick Veitch – who seems […]