How to bring newbies to perl?

By Upasana Shukla (‎upasana‎) from AmsterdamX.pm
Date: Monday, 8 June 2015 14:30
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: newbies perl programming

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Talk: https://speakerdeck.com/upasana20/how-to-bring-newbies-to-perl

Perl is a wonderful language, but still I see less new people in Perl as compared to other similar languages. There’re quite a few reasons behind this. An year ago, I wrote a blog post on this subject which describes the topic well: http://blogs.perl.org/users/upasana/2014/01/is-perl-really-short-of-newbies.html

Attended by: Dave Rolsky (‎autarch‎), Derek Clifford, Daniel Fackrell, Prairie Nyx, Stevan Little (‎stevan‎), Erik Peterson, Jordan Adler (‎jmadler‎), Mark Gardner (‎mjgardner‎), James E Keenan (‎kid51‎), Karl Boehnker, Wallace Reis (‎wreis‎), Phil Windley, Robert Threet (‎RAT‎), Brian Wisti, Garth Mortensen, vroom, Adam Rich, Upasana Shukla (‎upasana‎), Abigail, Josh Lavin (‎digory‎), Armin Resch, Theo van Hoesel (‎vanHoesel‎), Michael Hamlin (‎myrrhlin‎), Daina Pettit, Shawn Moore (‎sartak‎), Tim Bunce, Andrea Nall, Christopher Eades (‎Chro‎),