Shirley Márquez Dúlcey <[email protected]> writes: > We may have a bit of an image problem. Perl was the #1 most disliked > language in a recent poll on Stack Overflow. Surprisingly, Delphi was > #2; I didn't think it was known and used widely enough to score that > high on the list.
I run into this sometimes at work. It's funny/sad, since they're heavily reliant on Perl. I don't think there's anything that can be done (except to improve my code quality?), and that it's best not to engage when someone puts down Perl or asks why you're not using a certain particular other language in the same class with similar capabilities. Strange that Ruby is on the list too. It wasn't so long ago that was a language people raved about was it? How quickly people will turn. I wonder how these Delphi jobs pay and if they are willing to take on newbies. I always wanted to try that, what from having used Turbo Pascal earlier on and liking Wirth's writing (giving me warm fuzzies about Pascal, his other languages and his operating system Oberon). But if you get the last Delphi job and are layed off will you ever work again? Maybe it could be the last thing I do before I retire, assuming it's still kicking around in 15 or 20 years. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
