RE: Interesting, MS has decided that perl is "viral"?

[Dan Brian]

> And anyway, who is to say that the best technology 'should' be measured with
> technology goggles on.  Maybe the best technology is that which makes itself
> widely accepted by people like my grandmother.

That doesn't make much sense. Your grandmother (or mine, at least) is no
more capable of making sound technology choices than she is of telling me
what stocks to buy. We are talking about technology here, right? If the
aforementioned CIOs are less interested in good technology than they are
in good marketing, they aren't very good CIOs. Bad technology well
marketed is still bad technology. No magic there.

> Maybe Microsoft is the best thing that could have ever happened to the
> computer industry....

Maybe my grandma invented symbolic links.