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Linux Format Interviews Nat

posted by davorg on 2006.11.05 5:52   

The December 2006 issue of UK magazine Linux Format has an interview with Nat Torkington. There's an extended version of the interview on their web site.

• I think Nat didn't get to proofread it... (Score:2)

  by jhi (318)

  > ... the Perl 5 'port this' list ...
  
  
• Did TPF give up on Perl 5? (Score:1)

  by sri (5109)

  Please correct me if i'm wrong but isn't TPF supposed to promote Perl?
  Naturally everybody is free to think whatever they want, but when talking as a TPF representative which Nat clearly did, i think some of his statements are a bit inadequate.
  
  I don't want to post quotes out of context so i just highlight some parts.
  
  Linux Format: Could you tell me what your role is at the Perl foundation?
  Nat Torkington: I am on the board at the Perl foundation; we oversee the activities that the executive directo
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    Please correct me if i'm wrong but isn't TPF supposed to promote Perl?

    Shouldn't Nat have the opportunity to talk about other things he's doing, such as working on OSCON?
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by sri (5109)

      Absolutely, but the interview still looks like a Ruby ad to me.
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by davorg (18)

        Why is that a bad thing? Ruby is a nice language.
        • Re: (Score:1)

          by sigzero (5768)

          If you state "I am on the board of The Perl Foundation and then you go on to give an ad for Ruby, I think that is bad.

          It doesn't matter if Ruby is good or bad.
        • Re: (Score:1)

          by sri (5109)

          Ruby is a very nice language indeed, i'm now considering it for my next project too.
          
          But the point is that Nat was talking as a member of the Perl Foundation, not the Ruby Fountation.
          And these kind of statements stab people in the back that still try (or tried) to promote Perl as a general purpose language,
          especially for modern non-cgi web programming. :(
          • Re: (Score:1)

            by chromatic (983)

            But the point is that Nat was talking as a member of the Perl Foundation, not the Ruby Fountation.

            That might surprise both Nat and the interviewer.

            I write a fair bit of C code sometimes. I'm not and never have been a member of the Perl Foundation, but if I were, would you object to me mentioning that I write C? In the past few years, I've also written code in shell, C++, Java, Haskell, JavaScript, Python, Scheme, Visual Basic, T/SQL or something like it, SQL, Parrot Assembly, PPC assembly, and, yes,
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    I agree. I was a little dissapointed the "I use Perl, but not when I have a choice" attitude...