I reject your premise.

Perl is a tool. So is Python. So is Ruby. So is C. So is a hammer. I don't advocate Perl when a hammer is more useful. The object is to get stuff done, not to win some farcical language war. Perl gets stuff done. I know several people who know Perl reasonably well, but like Ruby or Python better for syntactic reasons--and that's fine, if they can get stuff done. If it hurts their brain to read sigils (and some people feel that way very strongly), I'm not reasonably going to sell them on Perl.

What am I doing for Perl? Getting stuff done with it, and when people ask me how I did it, I'm showing them, and explaining how Perl helped. I'm answering questions when I can, and reading the answers of others when I don't know them. Continuing to learn the language so that I can do more, and help more.

What am I *not* doing? Anonymously posting inflammatory rhetoric. That'd be doing *to*, not doing *for*.

In reply to Re: What Are You Doing For Perl? by ssandv
in thread What Are You Doing For Perl? by Anonymous Monk

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