From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T06:16:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:31:59PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:34:57AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >  
> >>Seriously, though, someone ought to do a sociological study of 
> >>"benevolent dictators" like Matz, DHH, Guido and Linus (Torvalds) and 
> >>the communities that have formed around them.
> >>    
> >
> >Those are some excellent examples of nice people who are community
> >leaders by dint of having created the focus of the community in the
> >first place.  I'm simply astounded that Larry Wall didn't make your
> >list, however.  He's sort of one of the pioneers of community accretion
> >in this tradition.
> >
> >  
> By the time I discovered Perl, it was long out of Larry Wall's hands and 
> into the mainstream. And I never even knew about open source communities 
> way back then. I got into Perl in the Perl 4 days as a replacement for 
> awk. There may have been a thriving Perl community then, but I wasn't 
> part of it.

There still is a thriving Perl community.  Check out PerlMonks, for
instance.

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