Matt Trout has a plan

Matt S. Trout:

But here’s my point: Perl people hang out on mailing lists. We bottom post, carefully interleaved, with 76 character lines. We have signatures that meet the McQ standard for acceptable size. We hang out on IRC servers and bitch, moan, interact and collaborate with the aid of an 80×25 xterm with irssi, BitchX or IrcII in it. Sometimes we sit at home with a beer and do one or more of the above. Forums? Meh. Those are the things the PHPtards like because they can’t figure out how to work a mailing list, right? Blogs? That’s not even a ••••ing word! I mean, in my day, we posted to usenet using Larry Wall’s rn that didn’t even have decent ••••ing threading, and we schlepped the posts about from one bnews spool to another over 1200 baud dialup links, and we liked it!

The rest of the world still thinks that we write a thing called PERL, whose purpose is as a super-awk or to write CGI scripts, they think that this language is designed to be write-only line noise that’s only slightly more legible than brainfuck, and we’re sort of sat here going “meh, well, they’re wrong” and NOT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT

And. There’s an extra incentive. […] So, if you don’t care about any of the rest of it and just think I’m an uppity annoying profane obnoxious b••••••, maybe getting the chance to help me make a fool out of myself will motivate you instead!

That’s Matt – scarily smart, gratingly profane, infectuously energetic, and gets things done.