Re: Respecting your enemy (was Corrupting the Perl community)

[Lisa Nyman]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Chris Nandor wrote:

> Though personally, I think Success Stories are overrated.  If I know 
> Perl is good, then I will use it.  I don't have anything against them, I 
> just don't find them very interesting from the perspective of "can Perl 
> do this?", because I know that Perl can do that.

It's not so much *what* perl can do, rather it's that perl is doing
something at all.  It seems that with perl and open source, some
organizations need a little encouragement.  I've had people tell me that
they've been approved to set up linux servers and run perl apps because
supervisors have read of mission-critical implementations at the Census
I've publicized.  It's a mob mentality.

Sad, but true.

Lisa Wolfisch Nyman  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  IT Warrior Princess
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