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Organizational Culture (Part IV): Perl Cultureby eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
on Jul 05, 2021 at 13:25 UTC ( [id://11134669]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Struggling to make heads or tails (sorry, CARs and CDRs) of Perl culture, I decided to focus on Perl's creator, Larry Wall. As indicated by the quotes above - and Larry Wall wikiquotes - humour is a huge part of Perl culture. Especially compared to the PhD-powered functional programming community - for those doubting this stark cultural difference, see the "Black Perl" and "Haskerl" sections at The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part VI): April Fools. :) Seeking further insights into Perl culture, I began reading Larry's Culture of Perl keynote from The Perl Conference of '97. I really struggled to relate to it though, couldn't make heads or tails of it. Later in the day I suddenly remembered my fluky lunch date with Larry from years ago. The strong impression I felt that day was Larry's extraordinary intelligence combined with a delightful kindness and gentleness. Combining those feelings with Larry's final metaphor from The Culture of Perl: the theological metaphor I want to leave you with is simply that it is better to give than to receiveand this quote from the Perl Culture chapter of Programming Perl: the only personality trait Perl programmers have in common is that they're all pathologically helpfulleads to my two primary characteristics of Perl culture:
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