Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Introducing: ++ for the day

I would like to introduce something to the Perl community. It is called "++ for the day". It will begin on my blog, but I suspect it might spread.

It is simple: every day (/time unit of your choice), post a little note incrementing somebody*. Explain why they deserve their ++: what piece of code, or blog post, or behavior (or something) they produced that was a positive contribution to the Perl community. Link to the contribution, so others can perhaps benefit.

That is all. :)

* explanation: this is a meme from the Perlmonks and Freenode IRC and perhaps other places. It's a pun on incrementing a variable: as incrementing a variable makes its value greater, so ++ing an individual means they have become greater in your perception.