> Larry Wall was a polarising character. He could be witty but also tiresome.
To whom? Unless you were working on the Perl language itself, there was no need to interact with him.
To whom? Unless you were working on the Perl language itself, there was no need to interact with him.
I joined the Perl6 dev mailing lists, listened in on them, offered my support, gave a broad stroke on design ideas, backed them up with reasonable arguments and asked for comments. Larry chimed in basically saying, "no, because this sucks" and not too long later the Camelia butterfly[0] thing was born.
So yeah, I bounced.
Larry may be brilliant, but maybe he also has a history of not knowing when to delegate tasks (and trust). And now Perl WAS something, rather than IS something.
I am qualified to help design a logo. And if the feedback was, "great ideas, but not the direction I want to go. What about..." or anything similar, that would be a fine way to show that my offer for doing free work is still happily welcome, with reasonable direction from the owner of the project. You know like a discussion.
There's some great OS logos. The Linux Penguin was great. BSD Daemon, etc, etc, etc. I love the camel, but that's not owned by Perl. It's not an impossible task.
We all ask the children to name the pets. Is cute, but often we live to regret it. With logos is the same.