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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • What you need to realise is that the vast majority of the Perl (or PERL!) programmers in the world have no contact at all with the Perl community. Most programming languages don't have a community like ours so a new programmer won't necessary go looking for it. Most Perl books don't emphasise the community aspect of Perl, many of the most popular ones don't even mention it.

    I'm not at all surprised by the number of Perl programmers who happily exist outside of the community. I _am_ surprised by the number o
    • Most Perl books don't emphasise the community aspect of Perl, many of the most popular ones don't even mention it.
      Which means that most of those books were written by people that were not "plugged in" as well. Which means that we probably have more of "blind leading the blind", because they won't be talking about cool things like the mailing lists and Perlmonks and the CPAN.

      And if that's the only place where a person got his "PERL" knowledge, then he's also not a very effective Perl programmer. Hence, "PERL" is in fact a good indicator that the person is not a good Perl programmer. He's not even reading the "perlfaq" that ships with Perl!

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      • Randal L. Schwartz
      • Stonehenge
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