On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:46:38AM +0700, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Selena Sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
>
> > > Elaine said:
> > > I'm not convinced that a lack of advertising money is the reason why Perl
> > > isn't as popular as Java or MS products.
> >
> > I disagree. I would agree with Stas Bekman that the biggest thing that can
> > be done for Perl advocacy is to find a big company to get behind it.
>
> If Java has Sun behind, is it in the same sense that C has (again)
> Microsoft, Borland, or other compiler vendor behind? If not, what
> makes it different between Perl and C in popularity while none of
> them really "owns" C?
The point isn't that Java has Sun behind it (but not just Sun. Also
IBM, Microsoft (even if they'd rather not) and more).
The main difference between Java and Perl is what is being produced.
The "great" Perl things that are being produced are modules. But modules
aren't interesting for the majority of the enterprise world. Modules
are just tools to make other tools. The enterprise world wants tools:
that is applications.
There are no killer Perl *applications*. Just killer modules. Not that
there is something wrong with that.
Abigail
