[oak perl] introduction

[George Woolley]

Zed,
Thanks for introducing yourself.

I love Perl and the Perl community too.
Since I started using it,
Perl has been easily my favorite language.
Yep, I love the community too
and the playfulness is central to that.

You've given me another reason for wishing
the release of Perl 6.0.0.
As far as I can tell,
it's going to be way kooler than Perl 5,
especially when you add in Parrot.
My thought is that once it's released
there will be a major surge of interest in Perl.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help now.

Long live Perl 6:
   http://stroller.uk.eu.org/Junk/p6_cover.gif

Welcome again to Oakland.pm.
George

On Friday 20 August 2004 6:51 pm, Zed Lopez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just subscribed to the list, and George encouraged me to introduce
> myself.
>
> I'm Zed. I've been programming in Perl for about 8 years, mostly doing
> database-driven web applications. I'd say LAMP, but it's all been on
> non-Linux Unices (though I run Linux at home.)
>
> I love Perl. It's the language where I've felt most at home, where I
> can get from my thoughts to code fastest, with a minimum of tedium and
> overhead. And I love the playfulness of the Perl community.
>
> I'm an intermittent participant on PerlMonks. I'm unemployed, and hope
> to correct that soon. (Discouraging note: I see about a dozen each of
> Java and MSFT-technologies web programming positions for every Perl
> position. Even PHP has been beating Perl in terms of numbers of jobs
> listed.)
>
> I might make the next meeting -- don't know yet.
>
> Talk to you all later.
>
> Zed