-- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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.
It doesn't require millions of dollars -- or Microsoft
wouldn't exist in the first place. It does require a
consistent messages repeated often, however, which is
something the Perl community hasn't been very good at.
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