[d2]

Sam, you've certainly made an enemy out of every member of the Perl community with this sarcastic and incomplete post.

Once you've gotten through OReilly's beginner Perl books and "Programming Perl", if you truly want to learn how to scale Perl in the enterprise, read Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl. Once you can write solid consistent OO Perl, read "Apache modules with Perl and C".

[mjd]

I'm a fairly well-known member of the Perl community, and I thought it looked okay. I'm not angry and I'm not Sam Hughes' enemy.

[benatkin]

> Sam, you've certainly made an enemy out of every member of the Perl community with this sarcastic and incomplete post.

What does the Perl community mean to you? It must not include Sam.

Is it people who organize and participate in conferences and get indignant at the slightest negative comment?

[sigzero]

No, we are not all like that. Fortunately. The author states:

"A bunch of new people started at work and we use a lot of Perl in our department. So I put together some information about Perl and I thought it might be worth sharing so here it is."

For that purpose, it is fine.

[pbi]

The intro is okay, but it did not help Perl community at all. Besides, the article itself has some poor code. For example, if one wants returning nothing, return "" is a very bad idea, since to catch it in as array would make an one-element array which is true.