Hey Neil --
> Interesting that you should post this, given what I read today on
> http://www.scripting.com:
>
> http://www.thetwowayweb.com/stories/storyReader$56
>
> It's about another InfoWorld columnist, Brett Glass, and how
> his popular
> "Help Desk" column was abrubtly dropped by the magazine in February of
> 1998. "Help Desk" often had a somewhat critical take on Microsoft
> software... and Microsoft are one of the magazine's largest
> advertisers,
> apparently. Draw your own conclusions.
Holy, geeze! Brett's story could have been a Noam Chomsky case-study in the
media's propaganda model! Wowsah....
> I am also frequently flummoxed by the ability of The Press to
> completely
> ignore Perl. They often seem to write as if Java is the only choice
> these days for server programming. It's like some kind of
> mass hysteria,
> unquestioning and glassy-eyed...
As far as I can see, Java has Sun and VB/ASP has Microsoft -- but Perl only
has us lowly developers. The press is only writing about their advertiser's
products, and (worse still) universities are only teaching about the
brochures they receive.
Someone emailed this to me today:
http://soldc.sun.com/polls/index.jshtml
According to this poll on the *Sun* developer site, Perl use exceeds that of
JSP, ASP and PHP -- *combined*! How much ya wanna bet Sun deletes this poll
in a hurry? I don't anticipate any press releases from Sun on the topic....
Petreley seems like a nice guy, and a fan of Open-Source software. I hope
you all write him a note! I don't think he knows that EmbPerl (or CPAN!)
exists.
TTYL,
-Jesse-
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