Becoming an Iron Man
Originally published in June 2010 on my previous blog, in both English and French. The Iron Man challenge is long over, but the diagnosis about a community’s duty to market its own language has aged well.
I came across a comic that illustrates well, to my mind, the issue with Perl’s popularity: XKCD: The secret of the Universe
Wherever the place I’ve worked, Perl was present to one degree or another, often in a crucial place, without its use being advertised or even known. I’ve long believed, that it was the reason why Perl wasn’t as popular as it could be, despite its use.