This is a tough question. I find myself torn between two conflicting thoughts. One is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". The other is that nothing is perfect, so why not try to make a good thing even better?

The Perl community has been an amazing resource for me, helping me to learn Perl and also teaching me subtly how to improve programming skills in general. The spirit of cooperation is strong. I believe this is its main strength - people are working together, offering help to one another, and not, in general, competing or trying to drag others down (of course there are exceptions to this generalization, but not many).

And yet - is there no room for improvement? Yes, there is. However, as someone else pointed out, the most useful place to work on improving the community is for me to work on myself. I don't have much power to change the Perl community, or anyone else for that matter. But I do have the ability to keep learning, lend a hand if I am able to contribute some bit of information, to try to give back to the community some of what it has given me.

In reply to Re: How would you rewrite perl community? by spiritway
in thread Would you rewrite perl community? by Eyck

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