William R Ward wrote: > Yes, that's part of it. But Perl's also been shooting itself in the > foot, in my opinion. Being hacker-friendly usually means being > management-hostile.
The only way to control the minds of management is via the usual media manipulation route. That requires millions of dollars in marketing budgets. Given that management will always believe what they're told to believe, by Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc., they're effectively a lost cause. For that reason, I think it's much more important that Perl *is* hacker friendly, because it's the hackers who are getting the real work done. Perl is a programming language, not a political tool. It's a shame that we get overlooked because of it, but that's the way it goes. It's better that we target our real audience, the hackers, rather than the faux audience (the suits) we think we'd like to have. A
