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Subject: Re: Go Forth And Prosper
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Julian Fondren <ayrnieu@gmail.com> writes:

> […]
> 
> I bet I could make at least a million dollars with an Indigogo project
> intended to make Perl the language of choice for women.  And all I'd
> need to do is put up a YouTube video of Schwern's keynote to YAPC2013
> in which he yells SHUT UP at the audience.  Because the difference
> between a dead and a living language is that in one you have to make
> your money by selling people products written in the language, or
> otherwise by actually using the language, whereas in the other you can
> just ask for money and get it.

Quite eloquent. :)