Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

A quick note about last Thursday's SIG meeting of the CLUG. This month was a special Perlmongers theme, given that we're trying to work with the Canberra chapter of the Australian Perl Mongers. So it was a pity that not only does no-one there other than me show any interest in Perl, but one guy (who I won't name) actively calls Perl "executable line noise". Yeah, thanks. That'll really make people enthusiastic about talking about Perl.

What I thought was ironic was that said Perl detractor has been working on some cool stuff - Microsoft's PDF-alternative format, and some other stuff in KDE that was more than nominally neat but has now slipped off the bottom of my stack. Now, I know that I tend to spend a lot of time telling people about my opinions on stuff - this blog may be a prime example. I do also try my best (I think) to be interested in other people's projects and interests, so I don't think I present a one-sided write-only approach. (As always, please email me at paulway@mabula.net, anonymously if you want, if you want to correct me on this :-) It's a little depressing, though, when no-one wants to talk about the topic of the night but wants their own ideas to be heard and applauded.

(Not that I hold anything against the person in question. I just wanted to talk gnarly Perl stuff, that's all :-)