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in thread Breaking Out of the Perl Echo Chamber: A Call to Action

Also, I was tempted to answer questions from other languages, with a Perl script...... that would probably start language wars over there.

Actually I would think that it might be a good thing to answer questions that are NOT tagged as Perl with Perl answers. Not when someone asks a question directly about an other language, but questions that are somewhat language neutral. Perl questions are asked by people who already know, and use, the language. Non-Perl questions on the other hand gives us a chance to show-off in front of an unsuspecting audience ;--)

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Re^3: Breaking Out of the Perl Echo Chamber: A Call to Action
by AZed (Monk) on Sep 19, 2008 at 21:19 UTC

    If the goal is Perl evangelism, this is probably not a bad technique — ignore all the threads tagged with Perl, but use Perl to provide code examples for all non-language-specific implementation questions for which Perl is a good fit. The trouble is finding those questions quickly.