On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:59:47AM -0500, Jesse Erlbaum wrote: > > http://www.perl.org/phbs/reduce-risks.html > > I would be *very* interested in working with someone to update this > document.
Just start posting patches, additions and updates. No massive coordination effort required. :-) > Perl needs strong advocacy which is readily available to every > developer who has ever been asked: > > * Is Perl as good as Java? > [...] That's one way to approach the problem. Another way is to make Perl so damn useful that it actually becomes tough to do your job *without* Perl. In the early days, Perl was such a boon to sysadmins and CGI programmers that you were stupid NOT to use it. Some say that Perl is in a similar position today with genomics researchers. Why not continue in the tradition of past success instead of adopting tactics from Sun and Microsoft that might not work with Free Software? > To go ever further: Perl also needs some sort of community "certification" > for developers. [...] Certification is a huge can of worms that crops up here every so often. It's best left to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and other such places. Z.
