Fascinating talk by internet guru Clay Shirkey about the way open-source software is powered by communities.
"We get our support from the perl community." From the looks on their faces it was like we said "We get our Thursdays from a banana" ... We come up with a moderately complicated question, we post it to USENET -- we had an answer before the meeting was over. It was at that moment I knew what was going on, because they didn't care. They didn't care that they'd seen it work in practice because they already knew it couldn't work in theory.
Update: fixed the link. Sorry!

Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more
kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...

Considered by Fletch: reap, virtual dup of Clay Shirky on Love, Community, and why Perl is like a Shinto Shrine
Unconsidered by Arunbear: enough keep votes {Keep: 11, Edit: 0, Reap: 14}

In reply to "Perl is a Shinto Shrine. Perl is an act of love." by Cody Pendant

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