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Matthew S Trout has started a Perl Iron Man challenge to encourage Perl users to become active in the blogosphere.  Not many people outside of the Perl echo chamber realize how active and modern the language.  A lot of the concepts that trampolined Ruby and Python into the forefront of Web 2.0 have been alive and well in the Perl community for a long time.  With the advent of Moose, Perl5 is as serious an Object Oriented language as Python and Ruby.

I entered myself today.  The goal is blog about Perl atleast once a week.  As I’m splitting my development time between a Catalyst Project and a number of POE projects, I expect my posts to be along those lines.  I’ll eventually share my DBIx::Class scripts as well.  There should be something for everyone, especially @strcpy!  (He loves my Perl blogging).

Look for code related stuff early next week!

I’ve been doing web application development for years in several languages. I’ve spent time with PHP, Java, but primarily Perl. I consider myself a “Perl Programmer” first, everything else second. Until recently, most people would equate that to “Dinosaur.” However, there’s been a revival of Perl these days! There are a number of reasons for this.

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