Last week, the Linux in Boise Club allowed me to present a short talk. Since they found me through my Perl work, I gave a small advocacy talk entitled Why I Like Perl. It went really well, though having several books and miscellaneous pieces of swag to give away always helps.
You might notice that there's not a lot of traditional "advocacy" in the style that turns people off. I was more interested in talking about the advantages of Perl that I enjoy than discussing the bits of other languages I don't enjoy. In retrospect, that worked pretty well -- there were several interesting questions about Parrot, Ruby, and Java.
In slide 10, line 2: "invididual" should be "individual".
A very nice presentation. I was initially surprised at the number of slides, but I later realized there's a lot of information there.
I agree with you that this is the right way to do advocacy, not "Perl wins, (what-have-you) loses". If anything, I would point out how some ideas in Perl, like the syntax cleanup for regular expressions, have found their way into other languages.
Re:Minor typo and comments
chromatic on 2003-02-26T17:22:01
Thanks, that typo's now gone.
The topic of "borrowing" Perl regexes did come up. It's invisible on the slides, right under the mention of PCRE.
