Re: God bless the Wayback Machine!

2001-11-22 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse Erlbaum) wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Torkington) wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/19990501151656/www.perl.org/advocac y/tech.html this turned into

Focus on Wal-Mart, not Microsoft

2002-03-09 Thread _brian_d_foy
In The Technology Review (March 2002, p. 21), Michael Schrage writes Wal-mart Trumps Moore's Law [1]. He makes the point that Microsoft doesn't matter that much in the big scheme of things, because if Wal-Mart decides to spend their four billion dollar Retail Link investment elsewhere, whatever

Re: Tcl vs. Perl FUD

2002-03-18 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advocacy document says: If you explore the Perl Web sites, you'll find various claims about why Perl is superior to Tcl. Many of these claims are either incorrect or out-of-date Is anyone here also familiar

Re: Tcl vs. Perl FUD

2002-03-18 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:57:42AM +, Dan Brian wrote: 2. Extensibility is one area where Perl has nothing to prove. It may be true that not everyone is an XS fan, but XS is not as difficult as some portray it. Nor is it the

Re: ORA declares: PHP *the* Web development language, mod_perl is not

2002-03-25 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHP *is* on more servers than mod_perl. Excuse me, how do you know that? mod_perl is usually running on the back end servers which aren't accessible by scanners like netcraft. The front-end doesn't indicate that its

Re: comparing Perl to .... X

2002-04-09 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the beginner Perl classes I teach people often ask me why is Perl better than X ? you can't answer that question without more information. you need to know what they are trying to do, and what their business needs

Re: Why Perl?

2002-07-10 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kalim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's a question: what's with your company's obsession with .NET? let's talk about Perl here. if you have problems with another company, send a note to them. in other news, the more things Perl can interoperate with, the more

Re: Sun pkg of Perl versus the ActiveState port

2002-08-27 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a minor problem, which someone on the list can probably help me on. Our outsourced sysadmins are holding out for a pkgadd version of Perl to install on our Sun/Solaris servers, on the grounds that such a package is

Sucks-Rules-O-Meter

2002-09-17 Thread _brian_d_foy
i've brought back the Sucks-Rules-O-Meter for programming languages, along with some other goodies: http://www.theperlreview.com/at_a_glance.html PHP has really shot ahead of Perl in terms of customer satisfaction (expressed on things that AltaVista can find). i've been talking to a lot of

Re: mitre article quote

2002-10-29 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A FOSS ban would have an especially negative impact on DoD software development. reference? does FOSS mean Free Open Source Software?

Re: mitre article quote

2002-10-29 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bdf == brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bdf In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A FOSS ban would have an especially negative impact on DoD software development. bdf

Re: mitre article quote

2002-10-29 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but perl was the number one example of OS used there which should be trumpeted to the world IMO. any manglement that says no to OS should be made to read that article (or be sent quotes from it).

Re: Using Perl in (Higher) Education

2003-01-03 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article 85879.1041554400@[192.168.200.4], Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that by the time students graduate their minds have already been fixed on whatever language they've been taught. an undergraduate program that fixes the minds of the students it graduates has