Healthcheck and the Perl Future

Heise UK published a Perl Healthcheck article, IMHO a very well informed review of the state of Perl, one of the best that I read in recent months (or even years).

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Re: Healthcheck and the Perl Future by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 12, 2009 at 15:24 UTC
Not surprising. Piers Cawley is a long-time Perl heavyweight with intimate familiarity with Perl's development. In fact, he is an old hand at providing such snapshots of the state of Perl for the community. Piers' blog - lots of perly commentary; his use.perl journal; his writeups on Perl.com. Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.	[reply]
Re^2: Healthcheck and the Perl Future by grinder (Bishop) on Jan 12, 2009 at 15:27 UTC
Although it should be pointed out that these days Piers does a lot more Ruby than he does Perl... update: having reached the end of the article, I read that Piers is beginning to work with Perl again. If you've ever talked with him at a conference about Perl, you'll understand why I say: Yay! • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl	[reply]
Re^3: Healthcheck and the Perl Future by cog (Parson) on Jan 12, 2009 at 16:11 UTC
From his bio: "Piers Cawley is a veteran Perl programmer with 10 years service who has spent the last couple of years in a lucrative dalliance with Ruby, but who is returning to the Perl fold for personal work. Between 2002 and 2005, he wrote regular summaries of activities in Perl 6 development for perl.com."	[reply]
Re: Healthcheck and the Perl Future by pdcawley (Hermit) on Jan 12, 2009 at 17:29 UTC
Thanks. And thanks to the people I interviewed in the course of putting it together.	[reply]

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