Perl is dead

[Hakim Cassimally]

2008/12/4 Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <philippe.bruhat at free.fr>:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:45:02AM +0000, David Dorward wrote:
>> Léon Brocard wrote:
>>> Did anyone go to the London Perl Workshop this weekend?
>>> About 200.
> Aren't most Perl events (more than 20 worldwide in 2008, more than
> 10 already announced for 2009) only reaching people *within* the Perl
> community?
>
> "Not dying" also means reaching new and young programmers that will
> continue to use Perl when we live on pension.
>
> How do we reach people outside the community after having spent so much
> time talking to ourselves?

The LPW did have a tutorial track: I believe that was targeted firstly
at the students of the host university?

Similarly the Italian Perl workshop had a "beginner" track which had
tutorials and general interest talks, all in Italian, distinguished
from the expert track, which included some talks in English.  I think
the approach worked - certainly I think the first-time attendees
outside the perl community were in the majority.  Getting "new blood"
seems to have been an explicit goal for the workshop, and seems to
have worked very well.

osfameron