On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:10:47 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0235220/perls-glory-days- are-behind-it-but-it-isnt-going-anywhere > > We know we suck at marketing, but is there anything we are going to do > about it?
This is, basically, Jon Orwant's prophecy coming home to roost: "People are going to move on and do something else." If Perl 6 was ready for prime time, it would be a different story. Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about configuration management frameworks like Chef, Puppet, and Saltstack. Those are Python- and Ruby- based. He asked whether there was anything in that family based on Perl. After extensive searching, I was forced to conclude that there wasn't. If there had been, we would have tried to make it work. That sucked. Not trying to blame anyone, and not trying to claim I have an answer. Just generally disappointed. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php
