From: "Brandon McCaig" <bamcc...@gmail.com> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If Perl is intimidating I think that this is a disadvantage. > > Some people are easily intimidated. It was that kind of thinking that > unleashed /Visual Basic/ upon the world. :(
:-) Very true. But not the current Perl we want to promote is so intimidating as that large pile of old Perl code that can be found on the net. If you'll search for "perl mailer" with Google for example, instead of finding the pages with the POD documentation on CPAN for the best Perl modules that can be used for sending email, the newbies that don't know about CPAN yet will find very many old Perl CGI scripts with bad recommendations. And even though they are newbies, they will notice that those .cgi extensions are not prevalent on the web anymore for a long time, so they will associate Perl with that .cgi extension that was very popular many years ago thinking that yes, Perl is a very obsolete language. After a certain time the same thing will probably happen to Python and Ruby also if they will have the success Perl had... who knows. Octavian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
