On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:22:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone else has run into the kind of negative feedback
> recently that I have seen following the news of a major rewrite of Perl. I
> am with a systems integrator. I work primarily with VLDB -- designing and
> building CRM/ERM systems. I spoke a few times at the annual Perl conference
> about how to get Perl accepted into large corporate IT shops.
>
> In the last two weeks two clients, whom I had managed to convince to use
> Perl more broadly throughout their companies in the last few years, each
> independently sent me some frantic email asking me to describe whether the
> rewrite was a good or bad thing. One of the two clients, a large bank, is
> considering moving away from Perl out of fear of lack of stability and
> problems with backward compatibility. Large IT shops like to move in very
> small increments generally.
Message #1: Perl5 isn't going away, even after Perl6 is released.
Proof: Perl4 is still around.
Message #2: We expect some minor Perl5 -> Perl6 migration issues.
This kind of migration isn't for everyone, and those
who have a desire/need/requirement to maintain Perl5
are encouraged to do so. Perl is still a robust development
environment, even if your distribution is slightly out of date.
Proof: Perl 5.004_04 is still around, as is 5.005.
Z.
