That's exactly what I ran into. I needed to learn how to write cgi scripts and I didn't know much about coding at all. Almost nothing.
I suppose we came in hordes and stormed their gates but all they really had to do was provide us with a space and that didn't happen.
Ironically, they did the same thing with the Raspberry Pi foundation reached out to them. No one responded.
I even went back to the "Perl Beginner's" mailing list and told them about the RPi Foundation and that Perl was being reviewed for the languages they would support with their Edu projects. No one responded.
At that point I don't think Larry Wall was involved much with Perl 5. And I know a few years before that he was frustrated with with lack of a cohesive path for Perl 6, and that not long ago he talked about how the Perl 6 Community had to reach out to educators and get involved with programs for kids.
The Python community did respond To the RPi Foundation when they reached out, and in a big way too. That's paid off big for them and the Foundation. Kids are growing up with Python now and will know it well and use it.
This evolution of languages has been interesting to observe.
I suppose we came in hordes and stormed their gates but all they really had to do was provide us with a space and that didn't happen.
Ironically, they did the same thing with the Raspberry Pi foundation reached out to them. No one responded.
I even went back to the "Perl Beginner's" mailing list and told them about the RPi Foundation and that Perl was being reviewed for the languages they would support with their Edu projects. No one responded.
At that point I don't think Larry Wall was involved much with Perl 5. And I know a few years before that he was frustrated with with lack of a cohesive path for Perl 6, and that not long ago he talked about how the Perl 6 Community had to reach out to educators and get involved with programs for kids.
The Python community did respond To the RPi Foundation when they reached out, and in a big way too. That's paid off big for them and the Foundation. Kids are growing up with Python now and will know it well and use it.
This evolution of languages has been interesting to observe.