While we are on the topic, check out this wise write up by mjd.
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html
It starts with:
"I think programming language advocacy is a big problem, not just for the
Perl community, but for the larger programming community"
ends with:
"I have a book on my bookshelf that I've never read, but that has a
great title. It says, "All Truth is God's Truth." And I believe
that. The most viable belief systems are those that can reach out
and incorporate new ideas, new memes, new metaphors, new interfaces,
new extensions, new ways of doing things. My goal this year is to
try to get Perl to reach out and cooperate with Java. I know it may
be difficult for some of you to swallow, but Java is not the
enemy. Nor is Lisp, or Python, or Tcl. That is not to say that these
languages don't have good and bad points. I am not a cultural
relativist. Nor am I a linguistic relativist. In case you hadn't
noticed. :-)"
and lots of good thoughts in between.
After reading this article and applying mjd's words to what has been
discussed here, I think that the more right ones were those advocats who
suggested to approve mod_perl in all possible ways
(docs/code/docs/build/docs), and the less right ones were those who
bullied about other languaged/technologies as inferior to Perl/mod_perl.
So far Matt has asked whether someone is interested to help him to keep
take23 up to date, I doubt whether anybody has contacted Matt and offered
help.
The advocacy is definitely not about talking but *doing*.
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