Re: The Case for a New Site for Perl Beginners

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:27:00 +0200, Wiggins d'Anconia  
<wiggins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


> It really does seem like he just wants the learn.perl.org domain to
> point to the site he created. Of course this is the web, and if the
> content is that good it really doesn't matter what domain you have.
>
> Check the archives....
>
> http://danconia.org

I think that all three sites (perlmeme.org/, learn.perl.org and  
perl-begin.berlios.de/) look like most of the sites back when I had an  
Amiga 1200 :eek:

You can pick just about any website of any other "web" programming  
language and it's much much better. Not just from design point, but more  
im****tantly content.

Perl needs better marketing/PR. And beside sites for beginers it needs  
better  advocation to business type people.

It also has lot's of misconceptions behind it - that should also be  
addressed. Stuff like scripting language, slow, perl = cgi, cobol of the  
web ...

Now instead of insulting each other, maybe we can actualy start doing  
something about it in a more productive way?

BTW. Is there anyone on this list who is familiar with Public Relations?

PS. Don't get me wrong - there is much more to Perl than just web  
programmig, but it's one of it's bigest markets - also the one that  
brougth worlds attention to it.

Regards,
-- 
Aleksandar Petrović