On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > the Perl community is not so interested in Windows OS, although it is the > most used OS and the OS used by the most businesses.
That's sort of flame bait. :\ I'll try not to preach. :P It /might/ be true that more businesses use Windows operating systems than alternatives operating systems, that isn't a very relevant metric to consider anyway. To me, Perl seems like an exceptional tool for system tools, Web programming, quick hacks and things of that nature. In those areas, I think that it's fair to say that unices are generally much more popular (I'd say superior, but that's my opinion). I wouldn't want to be stuck with a Windows OS for any of those things, but I'll withhold my reasoning. > However, if a language is better than another but is used less and less and > it has a bad image, and the language which is not so good is used more and > more and has a better image and attracts more new programmers, on the long > term that language will be improved faster and it will become much better. I've never heard of Perl having a bad overall image. Quite the contrary. C is still a vastly popular language, but there are countless people and groups that will label it dead and obsolete. They wouldn't be talking about it if it didn't matter. :P Everybody is entitled to their opinion and everybody experiences life a little bit differently. I think that Perl is still a vastly popular language and I don't foresee that changing anytime soon. Like all software, it always comes down to "right tool for the job", and Perl is the right tool for a lot of jobs. > There are reasons why more and more programmers prefer now Python and even > Ruby and those programmers probably don't prefer Perl because they see some > disadvantages in it, don't you think so? More than likely, they prefer Python and/or Ruby either out of personal preference (we don't all think alike) or experience and for many because they haven't actually used Perl. The impression that I've gotten is that Perl is an intimidating language to many (it's similar to C in that respect). People often form strong opinions about things that they know nothing about, especially when they're influenced by fear or other similar emotions. They're entitled to believe what they believe. Even if nobody else was using Perl I'd still want to keep it in my toolbox. In any case, once you've learned one programming language it's generally much easier to learn others, so one shouldn't worry too much about which one to learn and just learn one. There is no one programming language that is best at everything. The OP's seeking answers that simply don't exist without well defined parameters. -- Brandon McCaig <http://www.bamccaig.com> <bamcc...@gmail.com> V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. Vg qbrfa'g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl. Castopulence Software <http://www.castopulence.org/> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
