On Dec 1, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
Perl.  Is.  Not.  Dead.

Is there anything more we need to add to this discussion?
The last two big companies I worked for were both moving away from Perl. One of them was Amazon.com (I known there are still a few boosters and projects for Perl there but as a whole the company has become quite anti-Perl and has been rewriting everything in Java it can get budget money for). It isn't because Perl isn't useful, Perl helped build both of the companies, but because it has an image of not being up to the task. Sure Perl's not dead but that's at least 100 high paying, high profile Perl jobs in my town alone that are gone. Not because Perl sucks but because a lot of people think it does.

There is nothing wrong with trying to improve Perl's image.

...If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Yep.

-Ashley


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