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Not that I'm aware of... (Score:1)
I see new people arriving at most of the places I know of fairly regularly.
That people come and people go is the natural order of communities, I don't see it should be any different with Perl.
The other thing to note is that Perl has certainly moved to something more like a business language. There's a lot of people out there using Perl for work that aren't necesarily going to appear in communities.
Then there's the fact the the community specialises
Re:Not that I'm aware of... (Score:2)
From traveling the world teacihng Perl, I figure that only a tiny portion of the number of people who use Perl ever show up in "the Perl community", have a personal web page, or anything that we might count.
I don't really care how big the Perl community is, as long as it is Big Enough.
It looks ok to me (Score:1)
It doesn't have the hubris of the dot-com boom or the hype of Rails, but I'm pretty feeling pretty secure in my preferred choice of language. In fact there are a lot of people crying out for perl developers in the UK. I'm looking for a new perl contractor to work with my main client because m
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;
Re:It looks ok to me (Score:2)
I would guess we have at least another perl monger group between me and the nearest user group other than Linux.
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;