Improving Dev Assistant

Improving Dev

Assistant

Decreasing the amount of

PERLin the world

Dev Assistanthttp://www.devassistant.org/

Let's lookat the code

package myClass;

use strict;use warnings;

sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = { _hotelName => shift, _street => shift, _name => shift, _date => undef }; bless $self, $class; return $self;}

sub enterBookedDate { my ($self) = shift; my $date = shift; $self->{_date} = $date;}

sub getHotelName { my $self = shift; return $self->{_hotelName};}

# etc ...

#!/usr/bin/perl

#use strict;use warnings;

use POSIX qw(strftime);

use myClass;

my $myClass = new myClass( "Holiday", "Baker Street", "Sherlock Holmes");my $tm = strftime "%m/%d/%Y", localtime;$myClass->enterBookedDate($tm);

print ("The hotel name is ". $myClass->getHotelName() . "\n");print ("The hotel street is ". $myClass->getStreet() . "\n");print ("The hotel is booked on the name ". $myClass->getGuestName() . "\n");print ("Accomodation starts at " . $myClass->getBookedDate() . "\n");

I don't usetools like this

You probably don't use

tools like this

But a lot of people DO use toolslike this

These people are gettinga bad first impressionof Perl

Perlor

PERL?

But the project is on

Github

Fork

HackHackHack

Pull Request

Merged within a couple of hours

Released a few weeks

later

Merged within 24 hours

Project team very appreciative

(Obviouslynot Perl

programmers)

They would really like more help

It's nothard to do

Easy way to make a difference

https://github.com/devassistant/dap-perl/

These people are treating Perl as a

first-class language

But they aren't

first-class Perl programmers

They would like our help

They appreciate our help

Why wouldn't you help them?

Get forking!

Dave [email protected]

@davorg