On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:11:57 +0800 (SGT)
> From: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: perl vs php. just the facts, ma'am.
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, 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?
>
> I think it's very simple. When C has started (70's) it was competing with
> other available languages based on its merits and not how much money was
> put into marketing machine. See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
>
> Now that's it's won its darvinism game, it's here to stay for a long time,
> since almost everything has guts written in C, including languages like
> Perl.
>
> The story is different with Perl.
So is with any language I suppose. C survives, it's still the fittest.
Perl got its momentum in "the golden era" of CGI. Java got its momentum
as distributed application across the Internet. If Perl isn't as popular
as Java, why the poll on the Sun's website said otherwise, even more?
Oh, so we're talking about this popularity in the commercial world, not
among developers.
san
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