I disagree that your example discounts my point -- downloading Perl is not the same thing as building your online support system with it and not only leaving the .pl extension on your pages but leaving /perl/ in the URI. The latter publicly says, 'hey, by the way...we use Perl and we rely on it for something that we consider to be fairly important' versus the fore which could mean virtually anything (evaluation, installation scripts, etc.).
I think the difference here is significant. Is it enough that people and companies are using Perl and not talking about it, or should they be clear that they use it and rely upon it? Isn't it in the interests of Perl advocacy to present evidence that Perl is not just used but that it is relied upon and can handle more system administration tasks? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Dubois <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:11 PM Subject: RE: Sony support uses Perl To: Joel Limardo <[email protected]>, [email protected] It is kind of pointless to keep track of it, as virtually **everyone** is using Perl somewhere for something. A few years ago somebody analyzed the download logs for ActivePerl with reverse DNS lookup and matched it against the Fortune 1000 companies domain names. I don’t remember the exact number but around 90% of them had downloaded ActivePerl at least once from an IP address owned by those companies. Cheers, -Jan *From:* Joel Limardo [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Friday, August 13, 2010 9:55 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Sony support uses Perl Do we keep a list of current companies that are using Perl anywhere? I just noticed that Sony Support appears to be using Perl: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=HIDC10
