Re: Need some Help with Advocacy re: Java vs. Perl

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

Simon Cozens [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Elaine -HFB- Ashton (lists.advocacy):
*>>It's amazing how we can go from trying to help ORA advocate Perl one day
*>>to bashing them the next. 
*>
*>Encouraging them to readjust their attitude is still helping them
*>advocate Perl.

Trust is knowing exactly what someone will do. I trust that ORA will do
what it can to be a profitable business venture and Perl will do what it
can to keep the language going. I have to trust that lines will be drawn
where appropriate since if I can't trust that then the people behind them
will have walked away and that would be more disappointing than anything
else. 

*>> Greed at least gives people one very well defined goal.
*>Oh, indeed.

Greed, like desire, lends focus. Perl advocacy seems very abstract at the
moment consisting of lots of blind alleys. It could use some greed for
harmony, focus on the positive aspects of Perl and how it might be
'marketed'. 

e.