Selena Sol wrote:
> ... I bet that even Larry would NEVER say that Perl is the right
> choice for every task :)
Let's go to the scriptures:
If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language.
I use it occasionally... :-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and I trust you know what he was talking about.
> I think that as we learn to better advocate Perl, it is important that we
> maintain a healthy bit of humility.
I don't think you'll get any argument on that.
But how does the Perl community rate in terms of humility?
Worse than Java, Python, or Ruby? I think not!
Worse than C and Visual Basic, I suppose.
> I find the Java libraries built in to Java to be FAR more abundant,
> integrated, and easy to use.
Perhaps, but most of that code is necessary simply to get a
programming environment roughly equivalent to core perl.
> Also, too many people
> duplicate work with modules that are essentially identical.
Would you prevent them?
Anyway, Java has one thing right that Perl would do well to
emulate, IMHO, and that is its package/module scheme. But
that's a topic for another forum...
> CPAN could be a big plus for sales calls....but somehow, it needs to be
> packaged right.
CPAN can be packaged any way you want. It's just an Open repository.
> does anyone know how many people are on this lost and how many
> managers, sales perople, developers, etc are on the rollcall?
The answer is No. ;-)
--
John Porter
