in reply to Perl Monks monastery vs the Vatican

PM is a crotchecy old site ... sometimes an extremely hostile one ... and yet it is (IMHO) the “Go-To site” concerning the Perl language.   It has, in addition to its regular daily activity, an enormous archive of previous posts, and a good search engine.   That’s why you come here, and that’s why you come here.

PM is also an excellent code-writing service.   Post the bare sketches of an idea of how to solve a problem, and in a matter of minutes or hours several Monks will have done your work, or your homework, for you.   Probably in several different ways.   (This in spite of the occasional riposte that “we’re not a code-writing service!!”)

Seriously, social-media sites are great for looking at pictures of fuzzy cats, but they are not “purposeful,” and they do not maintain a subject-oriented archive.   They exist mostly so that advertisers can find out what you’re having for dinner ... as you’re having dinner.

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Re^2: Perl Monks monastery vs the Vatican
by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Dec 10, 2014 at 14:05 UTC

    Hi sundialsvc4,

    Everything you say is spot on.

    But technology today, and maybe I should have started here, is about a whole universe of new things, Android, Smartphone, Apps, Tablets AND social media. Maybe I'm using Social Media as a catch-all for this whole new universe.

    You sit in a train and 75% of the people on the train are staring at a small hand-held device, but they are not on PerlMonks and they are not coding Perl. In fact the Perl universe is closed to them from there.

    Why?

    Regards

    Steve.

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      If 75% of the people on the train were coding Perl, we'd probably be getting paid a lot less than we do.

      I'm not sure what your complaint is regarding Perlmonks and smartphones. My phone has a browser, and I can use it to access PM just fine. I also use the browser rather than the awful Facebook battery muncher even though that's available. You see, that's the great thing about web sites: there are browsers everywhere.

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      "You sit in a train and 75% of the people on the train are staring at a small hand-held device, but they are not on PerlMonks and they are not coding Perl."

      I doubt that even .01% of people on trains using smartphones (or such devices) are doing any coding. If you are trying to make a comparison between people accessing facebook and people accessing perlmonks then you're not going to prove anything.

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        I am, or least sometimes I'm testing or posting notes to PM.

        But I need a laptop to make it work.

        But if I'm coding for Android, I can use my phone.

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