At 04:51 PM 8/15/01 +0800, Selena Sol wrote:
>Suppose we run a series of 6 ads over 6 months for a total budget of $120,00
>USD.In our add, it would be something very simply like
>
>"perl - used every day at AT&T"
>
>with a little link to some brochureware site.
>
>Then, at the bottom we could have 12 sponsor logos
No language advertises itself this way. I have never seen a language
advertised like that. I don't see how this would accomplish more market
share for Perl.
The attention that Java and C++ get is not for the languages themselves,
but the libraries, components, and applications available for them. The
only reason Java got press was because of applets and beans. As long as
it's easy to make high-level enterprise applications, people couldn't care
less what the language looks like. There is still far more usage of COBOL
than most people realize.
I still think this approach is looking for the keys under the light instead
of where they were lost. Perl rules the glue application space. Figure
out how to tell whether it's doing better or worse at that, given that the
glue space doesn't follow the same rules as the better-known product
space. Maybe the same can also be said for the rapid prototyping space.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
