On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:20:13PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If Perl per se matters to you that much, then you should find some way > >to make it your day job. > > Hmmm...isn't that sort of what were talking about? If there's no job > market for Perl, that's kinda hard to do. Even if you run a business > where Perl is embedded, there are challenges to using it if the > marketplace shows resistance to it.
There are businesses and products that are built on Perl where the implementation language is not a concern. RT and Bricolage come to mind. Another model is focusing on service, rather than the deliverable. plusthree does a lot of work in perl/mod_perl, and develop an open source CMS called Krang. They deliver solutions to their market, use "open source" as a way of preserving value, and tangentially use Perl as a means to that end. Focusing on the small job market for Perl is a red herring. One of the benefits to Perl is that developers are more productive, so you need fewer of them. It doesn't matter that you don't get 1000 resumes for a Perl position; it _does_ matter that you can get the 2 or 5 Perl hackers you need to start a project. Sure, there's a class of problems where not having the '100% Java' seal of approval is the kiss of death. But that ignores a huge segment of the market that just doesn't care about what's inside. Z. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
