On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:51:46 -0500, James Linden Rose, III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 03:04 PM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > 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.
/me thinks of all of the dot coms who had advertising policies that resembled that. All failed of course, because they were wrong... > Perl isn't completely without commercial allies. Being the dominant > publisher of Perl related texts, it has certainly been in O'Reily's > interest to promote its use. That aside, over the last 10 years, the > number of shared CGI scripts written in perl and available to the web > developing community is vast. I'm sure it dwarfs all other languages. I'm not sure that what is available in Perl dwarfs what is available in PHP. Furthermore shared CGI scripts tend to be truly awful. (There are, admittedly, some exceptions.) > What Perl is really lacking is a widely recognized, widely accessible > certification program. When you hire Java programmers they walk in the > door with papers proving that somebody said they know what they're > doing. Perl is generally practiced outside this whole vetting process. Welcome to the routine debate about whether Perl should have a certification program. You're free to start one, but you'll have a lot of trouble getting prominent people to sign on. > That makes less technically experienced bosses woozy with fear. You > know you're a genius with Perl, but no 3rd party has printed up a > certificate telling your employer this. Actually in my experience the people who are most confident of their abilities tend to be mediocre at best. Top notch people are generally aware of ways that they can be better. (If you don't spend time painfully aware that improvement is needed, then improvement doesn't tend to happen...) Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
