I just wanted to throw in one quick thing here: > Anyway, my thinking is that if Perl could play to its strength as a FOU > (friend of Unix) more effectively, programmers would get into the habit > of adding it to their bag of tricks,
True programmers aren't the ones we need to tell about Perl. true programmers already know that they NEED perl to do many everyday things. It's the programmer's BOSS, and their boss' boss. These are the people who do not always see the ways in which things are done and therefore do not see the elegance and necessity of Perl. The other problem is that JavaScript is a client-side language. Which means that people can see/steal JavaScript code more easily than Perl code. Most beginners or Managerial types never even really know that any Perl has been used whenever it has. I liken Perl to the company AMD a lot. AMD has for many years made several chips that are stronger/better than Intel's matching set. But Intel has all the money for advertising. This is where Perl falls between the cracks as well. There is nothing telling the world about Perl, what it does, or how great it is. So, like with everything else in this world, Perl is never "in". Right now C# and the like is "in". So that is where the managerial types will lean. At least this is what I've noticed so far. --Alex _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
