Healthcheck and the Perl Future

[moritz]

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).

[jdporter]

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.

[grinder]

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!

[cog]

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."

[pdcawley]

Thanks. And thanks to the people I interviewed in the course of putting it together.