>> 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.
We'll call them true programmer's in training. ;) But honestly, MOST "true programmers" have already heard about Perl, and know it's value. Some will still like Java more, or simply enjoy programming other languages more. But they KNOW about Perl, and they know of its strengths. As far as file/text parsing there really isn't much better out there. Really, if new web programmers want to do some sort of online form to do something they will learn about Perl. I am less worried about convincing new programmers as I am convincing the manegerials out there. >> 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. I think part of the problem is that it is an open source system that doesn't have a fund for advertising. I think if we simply saw some commercials on tv talking about Perl, or telling about all it's success stories. Heck even if they're just like the Intel commercials simply saying "Yeah, here we are. We're Perl. We're cool. Yeah, so like us." It wouldn't take many to make a difference. But don't get me wrong, any new uses/implementations we can think of for Perl, the better. --Alex _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
