[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Its a fact that most large companies are using Open Source in their
*>infrastucture, brought in by the administrators and developers left to
*>do the real work.
*>
*>Its sad that they don't know it, and therefore don't appreciate how
*>they benefit from it.
The pyramids, despite the fact that there are those who believe them gifts
from space aliens, were built a stone at a time with lots of hard manual
labour. I don't think Cheops cared how it was built or how many died
in the process, just that it was ready for his passage into it.
I don't think Perl is going to be the 'next big thing' by comparing it to
Java or their respective popularity. Java has the shiny things that Perl
doesn't have, not to mention all the vendor partnering. Programmers often
forget or lose sight that people use software, not machines. For every
jerk in a public forum, someone might just decide that it's not worth the
hassle and try Java or C or Python because it isn't always about what's
best for the job. If that were true we would be living on the planet
Vulcan saying 'interesting' to punctuate every sentence.
Think of it like an Annual Giving Campaign where you might give $5 this
year and get a nice thank you note. Next year, you might give $10 and so
on. This is the backbone of fundraising, not the big corporate gifts that
receive all the attention. Every person that gives a dollar is a person
who gives a vote of confidence with their wallet, no matter how small the
gift. Think of the currency as 5 people helped without jerkyboy attitude
rather with a modicum of patience....it would be an amazing upturn.
We live in a relative meritocracy and it would be nice to see more people
stop taking themselves so seriously and get real because every person you
are reasonable to may just think Perl is ok, not just because it's a cool
language, but because it's a currency of the personal....something that is
becoming a scarce commodity in our bunkered suburban internet cube farm
workplace world.
e.
