Re: [Omaha.pm] Lightning Talks from UNO on Perl! :)

[Robert <raflists@gmail.com>]

Jay,

> Perl Operator Overloading in Action: Class::Date
> 1st minute: What is operator overloading?
> 2nd minute: What is Class::Date?
> 3rd-5th minutes: magic ensues

   This sounds cool.  We didn't get a chance to talk about OO-Perl
this semester, but one of the pre-requisites of the course is two
semesters of C++, so it shouldn't be too frightening to them.

> Thoughts? If not I could do any of this stuff:

   What would _really_ be great, if not for a lightning talk this
semester then maybe for something next semester, would be if some of
the area's corporate Perl-heads could come convince my students that
Perl is still an okay language to learn.  :)  They're all convinced
that PHP, Python and Ruby are the only ways to go.  I admit, they're
cool ways to go (my websites are all written in PHP), but the class is
about Perl, dangit! :)

   -- b