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OOC how many people would be interested in a Perl 6 Corporate Look n' Feel type site? Where everything is just designed to be boring and on message for production use in a business setting. Front page has Docker deployment and continuous integration setup steps etc. (that all exists and works FYI) Everything would be muted colours and mostly cloning the style of https://www.haskell.org/ or https://nodejs.org/en/ or e…
I think there's something to this. Whether it's logical or not, a language is partially judged on its web site. The Ruby and Python sites are less whimsical: https://www.ruby-lang.org https://www.python.org I want the language given a chance based on its merits, not dismissed because of a cartoonish site.
Who wouldn't be excited about learning R after visiting the website!
OOC how many people would be interested in a Perl 6 Corporate Look n' Feel type site? Where everything is just designed to be boring and on message for production use in a business setting. Front page has Docker deployment and continuous integration setup steps etc. (that all exists and works FYI) Everything would be muted colours and mostly cloning the style of https://www.haskell.org/ or https://nodejs.org/en/ or e…
Note: I'm not bashing Perl here - developers using any language can create unmaintainable code. The move towards producing enterprise-level software has included increasing salaries to the point where professional software engineers can be hired along with adopting architectural principles that are conducive to producing large-scale software.
Larry Wall's discussion on the logo, Camelia ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perl6/mu/master/misc/camel... ): Discussion Highlights ===================== From: Larry Wall Date: March 24, 2009 10:25 Subject: Re: Logo considerations [...] I think there's a tendency to go way too abstract in most of these proposals. I want something with gut appeal on the order of Tux. In particular I want a logo for Perl 6 that is:…
> You of the masculine persuasion should consider it an opportunity to show off your sensitive side. :) I might perceive this differently because of my cultural background, but isn't it a bit misandric to claim masculinity as unsensitive? Tom Cooks
* Something a programming language with wide use would ever adopt, past, present, or future
* ..and is misogynistic in any way
What the hell is that sentence directed at?
Larry Wall is speaking at the San Francisco Perl Mongers meeting this evening. Along with most of my team at work, my wife and I are going to attend this event. The biggest of the three big items remaining in Perl 6 development before GA has been completed, give or take. (The Great List Refactor) I'm not 100% sure of the status of the other two, but I think the Unicode stuff is also well on its way as well. My predic…
OOC how many people would be interested in a Perl 6 Corporate Look n' Feel type site? Where everything is just designed to be boring and on message for production use in a business setting. Front page has Docker deployment and continuous integration setup steps etc. (that all exists and works FYI) Everything would be muted colours and mostly cloning the style of https://www.haskell.org/ or https://nodejs.org/en/ or e…
Yes, because the website is what's usually hampering adoption of programming languages.
The only way these kind of knee-jerk reactions get dismantled over time is to ignore the nay-sayers and prove them wrong. And being in a profession where logic is valued, a lot of people here should know better.
Compliments to the Perl 6 community. Nice new layout and design.
Not sure who thought that colour scheme was going to win people over. Wouldn't it make more sense to have something of a cooler temperature that's more likely to be easy on the eyes?
This looks so awful. How can you take the language seriously with a homepage lke that?
I'm encouraged that this website looks this bad. We're in the last seizures before dying of Perl. Seriously, look around at the other options, they're all better. All of them. I'm so tired of this delusional community. Let Perl be legacy; turn the lights out.
The Perl community makes Perl for... the Perl community. If it grows back to its former glory, great. If not, we keep using it anyway. Because, you know, hackers.