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British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42 (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

how the hell did a Perl guru younger than me come to exist? I'd have figured they're all 50+ bare minimum.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Matt started young. Only a few years before I started in earnest. We were all kids in our 20s when I got to know Matt. I think everyone I knew back in the day must be at least 40 at this point. Before the community evaporated and the world moved on, a lot of cool shit was built in Perl and our community was pretty welcoming. Even to 18-25-somethings with more technical skill than sense. Such a wild time to look back on. So now you can say "how can there be at least two JAPHs younger than me" 😉

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

That's cool to hear :)

I think the last big Perl app which I regularly dealt with (and was aware of it as such) was the supporting software for the Squeezebox music players.