Re: Could this be why Java is so popular?

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

Andreas J. Koenig [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>Welcome in the endless loop of advocacy: An animation environment
*>needs a programming language embedded. So which do the bloated
*>companies choose? The one that people are familiar with and using a
*>lot. So Adobe supports JavaScript within SVG, not perl. Blech.
*>Convince them to use perl instead, more people will be using perl,
*>more people will be asking for perl in the future. How do you convince
*>them?

I would imagine that someone like ActiveState would approach them with a
proposal and some sort of partnering arrangement to get Perl into their
products. 

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