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The Perl Foundation Gets New Leadership

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the changing-of-the-guard dept.

Andy Lester writes to tell us that the Perl foundation has named a new president and steering committee members. Bill Odom landed the seat of president, replacing Allison Randal who has occupied the seat since 2002. From the article: "Founded in 2000, The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation based in Holland, Michigan, established to advance the use and development of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code."

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  1. Keep them both? by neelm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not keep both on as president? That way there would always be more than one way to get something done... I'm sure that never leads to problems. /who let this python guy in the room?

  2. Re:Perl's place in todays world? by kurtu5 · · Score: 3, Funny
    A great reason to use perl is you can publish your code GPL and still keep your code secret!

    Perl gives one the ability to write very very obsfucated code. In fact I love perl. Looking at someone else's perl code is even more fun/challenging than solving suduku puzzles!

    Use perl if you don't want anyone, ever, maintaing your code.

  3. Re:Perl is Dead by Vorondil28 · · Score: 3, Funny

    As long as Netcraft doens't confirm it, I'll keep coding.

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