>An observation could be that organisations need to have a job done,
>and choose whatever tool (modulo hype and other marketing factors)
>that does the job best. When organisations needed CGI jobs, Perl did a
>better job at CGI scripts than shell and C, and people massively
>started to use Perl. Apparently, what the world wants now is XML and
>Perl is not the best tool around for XML jobs. So it could be less
>a Java versus Perl issue than a "what tool suits my current problem
>best".
So why can't Perl be a better tool for XML jobs? Is this something the
Perl core developers should be looking into? We certainly see a huge
demand for XML and it is continuing to build.
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