Hi!
Thanks for your mail.
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Regarding success stories - yes, it's good that the Python site has
them.
> > And yes, it's bad that the prominent Perl sites do not have more
> > testimonials. I've tried to remedy the situation by including a
> > "Testimonials" page at:
> >
> > http://perl-begin.org/
>
> It might be a good idea to get this on the Perl 5 wiki for starters
> (http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi).
I don't think there's
a
> testimonial's page yet, but I'd love a "Perl Stories" (rather than Perl
> Success Stories) area in the wiki.
>
> > 1. How can we better solicit more Perl success stories?
>
> Stop asking for "success" stories. People react differently to this
> phrase, of course, but for most people, a "success" story sounds really
> hard. Just getting the job done doesn't really sound like an
interesting
> success.
>
> Ask people for Perl stories, and leave the "success" word completely out
of
> it.
Sounds good.
> Start with "What does your organisation use Perl for?" there are much
> more interesting answers to this question than you'd expect. For
example
> Animal Logic ( http://www.animallogic.com/
) in Australia who did parts
of
> the Moulin Rouge, Fellow****p of the Ring and Matrix I or II; uses Perl
for
> sequencing and timing. Qantas uses Perl for generating and processing
> boarding p*****, Mold Flow ( http://www.moldflow.com
) who have created
> software for optimising the creation of plastic molds uses Perl to test
> that software. Unfortunately I speak with no real authority on these,
> because it's 2nd hand information, but these interesting stories are out
> there, we just need to rephrase the question.
>
Thanks for the leads, I'll see what I can do. I also know a lot of the
code
****pped in VMware's products (or at least VMware ESX) is written in perl5,
and you can view its source code there using less, and edit it. But I need
a
good lead there to write a Perl story.
> > 1.a) If you have a success story or a different testimonial - send it
to
> > me.
>
> I'd rather "add it to the wiki". Perhaps other businesses wouldn't
prefer
> this, but I'd like the chance to go back and copy-edit without having to
> pester the site manager all the time.
Which wiki? http://perl-begin.org/
has some pages on http://perl.net.au/
associated with it, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to put the success
stories there. In any case, the quotes from the stories themselves cannot
be
on the wiki. I have some ideas for a nice JavaScript implementation of
such
quoting.
>
> > 2. What should we do, if we should do anything about the "NASA Uses
> > Python" box in http://www.python.org/
?
>
> Cheer them on! I think it's fantastic that the Python website is
promoting
> itself and Python.
I also think it's great that the Python website is promoting Python. I
hope
the Perl sites can become as good. (Without saying "NASA Uses Perl" or
"NASA
Uses Fortran on VAXen".).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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