From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T06:17:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:53:38PM +0900, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Larry Wall definitely still plays a role in the Perl world. At least,
> the development of Perl 6. I was really skeptical about Perl 6 but I
> think it's going to be very, very entertaining. (I don't know if it'll
> be entirely useful, but I'm sure it'll be interesting.)

He's involved in more than Perl 6.  He also occasionally participates in
discussions at PerlMonks, for instance -- though one might not recognize
his username there, at first glance.

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