The message below is from the Class::DBI mailing list. It refers to a web programming contest:
http://www.plat-forms.org/index.htm in which a variety of web development platforms will be compared by having a bunch of teams each do their best to create a particular web application. (The contest is time limited to 30 hours and takes place at the "Open Source meets Business" conference in Germany. They'd obviously get better participation if they took off-site submissions.) In any case, the message below is publicizing that the contest promoters say that they're excluding Perl because "too few professionals use it," but are open to feedback to the contrary. While Perl is certainly not getting any press these days for web development, a technical contest like this should be designed to cut through the hype and reward the best solution, regardless of what the latest hype might be. Hard to believe that in 10 short years Perl has gone from being the leading choice on the web to not even worth considering... -Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CDBI] Gentlemen, a call to arms! Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:34:49 +0100 From: Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plat-forms.org/faq.htm They're having a platform war. We're forever left out of the ruby vs. python games, the "enterprise" people ignore us (though really, I'm not sure I mind that :) but ... "We have been considering Perl as one of the platforms to be admitted to the contest. So far, we have decided against it because we believe that too few professionals use it professionally for us to hope to get enough requests for admittance for the Perl platform. If you are a team that would like to participate and would like to use Perl, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lutz Prechelt)." This is a bit of a shotgun e-mail. Several list admins are probably going to attempt to track me down and shoot me in the head. I don't care. Our community has repeatedly failed to market it's way out of a paper bag, I've even helped contribute to this with my eminently forgettable London Web Frameworks Night talk. But this is about producing working code. *That* we know we can do. Stand up and be counted. It's gotta be good for a laugh if nothing else. *dons asbestos suit, hides under desk* -- Matt S Trout Offering custom development, consultancy and support Technical Director contracts for Catalyst, DBIx::Class and BAST. Contact Shadowcat Systems Ltd. mst (at) shadowcatsystems.co.uk _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
