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

[Chris Nandor]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lisa Nyman) wrote:

> 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.

Agreed.  Some people want them, and we should provide them.  It's just 
not something I personally care much about (although I do love hearing 
about stories like at the Census Bureau :-).

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