Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-03-18 Thread benh
Thanks Tim great job. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:50:40PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote: Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ Note that

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-03-17 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:49, Tim Bunce wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:50:40PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote: Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ Note that blog comments that say, you're wrong! are more harmful than

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-02-22 Thread Steven Lembark
To the uninitiated or person considering Perl, seeing articles averaging 5+ yrs of age, it looks like a ghost town. The reality is that many of those articles are still relevant. But how can you explain/train that concept? The parallel is people looking up at sourceforge and like sites,

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-02-21 Thread George Magklaras
Aaron Trevena wrote: I've been doing Perl almost exclusively since I graduated from uni in 2000 and I'm still surprised by how widely used it is - in fact I think my last few jobs and contracts have all been in places that your average Java or Python programmer would say Perl wouldn't work -

RE: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-02-20 Thread Rodney Clang
19, 2008 11:17 AM To: advocacy@perl.org Subject: Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur Q: In the last two weeks how many of us have changed the way we do anything based on this discussion? Some reasonable ideas were put forward, I'm must wondering if anyone is actually altering their actions

RE: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-02-20 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Q: In the last two weeks how many of us have changed the way we do anything based on this discussion? Some reasonable ideas were put forward, I'm must wondering if anyone is actually altering their actions based on them. I've volunteered as

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-02-19 Thread Steven Lembark
Q: In the last two weeks how many of us have changed the way we do anything based on this discussion? Some reasonable ideas were put forward, I'm must wondering if anyone is actually altering their actions based on them. enjoi -- Steven Lembark +1

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-01-30 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, brian d foy wrote: I've been working on some stats about upload activity to CPAN from 1995 Maybe you could upload it to many eyes so people can easily create and share different visualizations? Very

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-01-30 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Jan 2008, at 23:40, brian d foy wrote: Very interesting. I've created the data set: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/data/SmAgULsOtha6j6GvEADnL2- Many Eyes: CPAN Volume

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:00:26PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:50 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ Note that blog comments that say, you're wrong! are more harmful

RE: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-01-25 Thread Henning Michael Møller Just
brian d foy wrote, on Friday, January 25, 2008 12:25 PM: I think that's related to an earlier assertion: Even the lead developer, David Wheeler, has not mentioned the project on his personal blog in two years. For all practical purposes, the Bricolage project should be considered

Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-01-24 Thread David E. Wheeler
Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ Note that blog comments that say, you're wrong! are more harmful than helpful. I mean is there a report or something with real data to show otherwise? Thanks, David

Re: Perl Going the way of the dinosaur

2008-01-24 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:50 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ Note that blog comments that say, you're wrong! are more harmful than helpful. I mean is there a report or something with real