In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Selena Sol) wrote:
> I think the perl for businesspeople should be broken down by industry and be
> written from the point of view of each target market. Standard targetted
> marketing. Case studies, cost analysis, resources, etc. The point would be
> to convinve businesspeople to take Perl seriously. So it would not be too
> technical.
I have never understood why it matters much if businesspeople take Perl
seriously. Perl is Number One without people taking it seriously. I
wonder if businesspeople did take it seriously if Perl might be *less*
successful.
Of course, I don't think highly of the business world in general, so I
freely admit I have a bias, one that should be quite understandable to
most people here. But the point still holds: with Perl as phenomenally
successful as it is without telling businesspeople much about it, I
don't see what will be gained by clueing them in, and I fear we have as
much to lose as we have to gain.
We all know that Perl is used in most places without telling anyone that
it is being used. If businesspeople knew it was being used, they are as
likely, or more likely, to order that it not be used anymore as they are
to ask that its use be increased. Businesspeople are dumb like that.
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