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

[Simon Cozens]

Turoff, Adam (lists.advocacy):
>If I understand Larry's worldview correctly, Perl has failed if
>we achieve world domination and everyone is running PerlOffice
>or PerlPoint, but no one actually writes programs in Perl.
>...
>The next question that comes to me is, "How do we turn the tables on
>Java and refocus the conversation on Perl's Dark Matter -- Perl users
>who don't identify with being programmers?"

I'm being a little slow, but what do you mean with your last phrase? -
users of Perl, (part-time programmers, if you like) or users of Perl
programs. (end users)

If you mean the latter, than Larry's worldview says these aren't the
people we should be caring about particularly; what's important to us
is the first category. And I think the way to do that is more
testimonials of the form "We had this problem, I sat down and wrote
some Perl, and it was the easiest way to solve it" - things that come
from, as my esteemed publishers are so fond of saying, "Programmer to
Programmer". 

I want the final impression to be "Hey - we can use Perl to fix stuff."
'Cos that's what Perl's all about.

-- 
After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
                -- Italian proverb