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Re: Perl Contempt in My Workplace

by LanX (Saint)
on Apr 27, 2021 at 18:14 UTC ( [id://11131763]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl Contempt in My Workplace

I don't know the cure but understanding the reason might help.

  • A Evolutionary struggle
  • B Psychology.

A) open source lives from contribution and bad mouthing the competition helps lifting the own chances.

B) most people want to be on the winners side. The more insecure they are about their own skills the more inclined to mob others°. They might say they are Pythonistas, but an average Perl programmer will beat most of them in Python.

Trouble is the self fulfilling prophecy happening here.

I don't have a recipe for you.

Personally I'd come with a use Perl or die; t-shirt to work and demostrate Perl fun each day. :)

Cheers Rolf
(proud member of the PEK - Perl-Emacs-Kraut - community)

°) "True I beat my wife but hey my neighbor is even worse and always screams at his kids ..."

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Re^2: Perl Contempt in My Workplace
by shmem (Chancellor) on Apr 30, 2021 at 16:47 UTC
    Personally I'd come with a use Perl or die; t-shirt to work and demostrate Perl fun each day. :)

    I'd use one of my perl poems for that shirt with

    # *perl* goto HELL;

    on the back and the poem on the front, adding a snarky footnote:

    HELL: { eval "die;"; goto HELL; redo; } # You¹ can't redo. # ¹) python
    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
      I got mine at YAPC Kiew in 2013°

      funny enough the "T-shirt constructor" is still online.

      https://act.yapc.eu/ye2013/t-shirt/index.html

      Maybe you wanna use this model for your own online t-shirt business? :)

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      °) stayed later at a friends place in Odessa, who turned out to be championing Python. Alone his facial expression after meeting me at breakfast with this t-shirt was worth the trip! :)

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