Re: Useage of Perl up or down?

[John Porter]

Chris Nandor wrote:
> 
> The fact is that companies hire three types of programmers (in no
> particular order): hackers, computer science majors, and morons.  Hackers
> can do Perl just fine, morons can't do anything without Visual Studio, and
> computer science majors often follow the buzzwords and the money, which
> means Java.  

Maybe it's because there's so many hackers in it, but it seems there's
a real anitipathy against CS types in the Perl community.  And frankly
I'm getting a little impatient with it.  CS majors are just hackers with
a eddication, in many cases, like mine.

I don't believe CS majors follow the buzzwords and money any more than
hackers or morons, to the extent that they're able to.

One of Perl's image problems is that it is perceived as a hacker
language by many; and the anti-CS rhetoric surely contributes to that.

-- 
John Porter

        Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht.