Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

--- Shlomi Fish <shlomif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> http://perlmeme.org/

In http://perlmeme.org/start_here/our_motivations.html
there's a lot of
talk about dealing with "anti-Perl memes" and, essentially, how to
market Perl.  Given that, I can only wonder why the site creators
didn't bother to contact The Perl Foundation
(http://www.perlfoundation.org/)
as the latter is always interested in
new volunteers with energy and creative ability who are willing to help
out on that very topic.

And is there any mention of the Perl community?  I can't see it there. 
The site pur****ts to be a resource for "selling" Perl and overcoming
the negative reaction many folks have to the language, but the site is
little more than a cookbook.  How can one market Perl and leave out one
of its strongest selling points?

Oh, and this is bad, just bad: 
http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/subroutines/perl_files.html

And can you find the runtime errors on this page's code? 
http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/using_perl/display_text_message.html

And plenty of little bugs and typos here: 
http://www.perlmeme.org/tutorials/cgi_script.html

There's more and nitpicking seems petty but for a site which has the
stated goal of addressing the "many irrational anti-Perl memes", it
really needs to get things right.

Cheers,
Ovid

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