We want you to say that “Perl is Dead” even though it is “Very Much Alive”
Sun, 01-Nov-2020 by
mdk
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So this is going to take a moment to digest but the Marketing team would like you to write blog posts that have ‘Perl is Dead’ in the title. Take a deep breath before you paint a target on our backs and let me explain (please make sure you don’t hold that breath in for too long and pass out though.)
We don’t think that *Perl is Dead*.
We’re realists. Sure we have realised that Perl is in need of a boost and it needs some reinvigoration (from a marketing point of view, the programmers who work diligently on the code do a great job). So why do we want you to say ‘Perl is Dead’?
In the last few years, as there has been a decline in the uptake of Perl for new projects, and as we have seen the natural evolution of a language and turn over of developers there has been a long line of people wanting to declare the demise of Perl. They have of course either misunderstood or exaggerated the situation. There is a decline, but it is not moribund yet, and there is no real signs of it shuffling off this mortal coil. In fact the jobs market still has openings for new developers and seasoned veterans.
But the words persist and search engines find them all too readily which disrupts the narrative. People search for Perl and find ‘Perl is Dead’. There is all too often a negative opinion, sometimes without a balanced discussion attached. So we think it is time to reposition the conversation. We cannot remove the existence of these pieces, but we can move the display.
We want to claim the words for our own. We would love it if people took up the challenge to write posts that use similar things to this in the title:
* Perl is Dead Easy to Learn
* Perl Makes (x) Dead Easy
* Perl is Dead, Long Live Perl
* (x) with Perl is Dead Easy
* Getting Good Perl Developers is Dead Easy
* Perl is Dead Fast at (x)
You see where we are going with this.
For our part we will be happy to promote your blog. The Marketing team has an adwords budget and we will be glad to use it to point traffic in the direction of these posts and to mention you in our social output. We don’t want to start a war with other people who have an opinion different to our own. We just want to reposition the argument to a positive stance. We hope you can help us.
As always we are happy to get your feedback. Please use any channel to get in touch with us. (A direct mention to @shadowcat_mdk on Twitter or mdk on the Perl Foundation Slack is the quickest way to get my response).
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Comments (3)
It's good initiative, Perl way of answering to the dead question.
When users publish modules on CPAN they do not prohibit to redistribute modules.
So we can redistribute source code via github, bitbucket or so.
This will increase perl popularity and shows to public how perl is amazing how it wide spread, how many code is available how it supported and how modules updated often.
Unfortunately tools do not take into account CPAN and measure is made via just popular platform like: github.
Hope this will be useful ;-)
Happy to oblige: https://phoenixtrap.com/2021/06/01/should-perl-die-gracefully/
