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long ago I submitted code to perl to help it run nicely on AIX workstations that were at use at Intel at the time: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/3e25f6d2dce9289bf3894d673...
Then in 1999, Red Hat files an IPO and offers free shares to open source developers. That blurb in the perl source got got me included in the Red Hat IPO but the email was so strangely worded I assumed it was spam and deleted it. Oh well.
There was no admitting to themselves.
There was the personal realization that the two factions in what was then the Perl community, would never see eye to eye on what the language called "Perl 6" was. And that all of my efforts of reconciliation, such as the Perl Reunification Summit http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunifi... had been in vain.
Which lead me to open an issue https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 which in the end resulted in the rename to the Raku Programming Language https://raku.org .
There was no admitting to themselves.
There was the personal realization that the two factions in what was then the Perl community, would never see eye to eye on what the language called "Perl 6" was. And that all of my efforts of reconciliation, such as the Perl Reunification Summit http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunifi... had been in vain.
Which lead me to open an issue https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 which in the end resulted in the rename to the Raku Programming Language https://raku.org .
Whilst I missed the boat on Perl by a decade or two, I was exposed to it in a previous job. I was intrigued by its flexibility and power. It seemed so much could be accomplished with just the right knowhow.
So gradually over the years I've dipped in and out of Perl. I've found the learning curve much steeper than Python, or even C, but once surmounted the payoff is immense.
So I eventually wrote my own static website generator in Perl, available here for the curious:
https://github.com/lordfeck/rsru
A sample of what it generates is here:
http://wmw.thran.uk/
Even lately at work, I was tasked with the tedious job of manually converting JSON files into Excel for a customer to review, then wed have to convert them back to JSON.
Guess what I did instead ;)
