On Feb 25, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
True programmers aren't the ones we need to tell about Perl.
I meant budding web programmers. Are these true programmers? I hope so. "Web scripter" just doesn't sound as good.
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.
Yes. Good Point. Perl doesn't have 'buzz', but it does have 'kinship ties', in the anthropological sense, that could prevent it from being falsely accused of witchcraft and then speared to death, or the like. Perl has good kinship ties because it plays well with others. But too many people, as you said, have simply never tried it. If it becomes more of a web programming staple, there will be more people to stand up for it when the high priest points his finger.
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.
Yes, JavaScript has its niche. It's like the smelly, grimy village idiot who tends the pigs: obnoxious but indispensable. Perl would settle for just being indispensable. Perl doesn't NEED a niche, but it might benefit from finding one on the desktop.
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