Re: Using Perl in (Higher) Education

[Jason W. May]

I don't think Phil was suggesting that Perl 5 isn't a good option for non-sysadmin
problems. It's entirely perception - most managers without a sysadmin background
do not perceive Perl as being an appropriate choice for application software.

Regardless of the particulars of Perl 6, I don't see any activity underway that is likely
to change this perception.

Java has been transformed over the last several years from a language perceived
as appropriate only for client software (applets) to a language now perceived as
appropriate for server software. This has occurred primarily through the efforts
of Sun's marketing department. I don't see any force acting to promote Perl as
an appropriate choice for corporate application development.

You can substitute Python for Perl in the above. Or PHP.

-Jason


David K. Trudgett wrote:

On Monday 2003-01-06 at 17:21:28 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Namely, most of the senior development managers did NOT have any
background in sys admin, so they didn't have a context in which to
appreciate the language. The problem space they all worked in was one
in which perl was NOT necessarily optimal.

Do you think Perl 6 will be a language that _is_ "optimal" for
many/most/all of those problem domains for which Perl 5 currently
isn't?

David Trudgett