Hall, Philippe wrote:
I love EmbPerl -- I've been using it for 3 or 4 years now. I'd love to see it climb out of obscurity.
I agree! Just to be clear (reading back over my emails) none of this is really directed at Gerald. I love Embperl too, and plan to continue using it heavily.
You're right, that was a little depressing, but it's representative of what's happening all the time in the industry, I think. It's a question of awareness. I think the simple truth is that a lot of people still think "perl == dinosaur" and "perl == slow cgi scripts". Perl is a victim of its own early success on the Web, when CGI was all there was. Perl ruled, but then people made better solutions, including mod_perl - but by then the associations were already made.
Perhaps what we need is an Embperl O'Reilly book. I think there was one planned in Germany (by Gerald), but it got canceled for some reason.
O'Reilly or otherwise, if you have a good reference book on the shelves, that makes it a whole lot more accessible to people. Hopefully now that 2.0 is maturing, the API will remain the way it is for a good while, so the book doesn't go out of date.
I don't really feel qualified any more to write an Embperl book - 2.0 has a number of new features which I find a little mysterious - recipes, for example. Is anyone actually using these things? I'd be interested in "real life" case studies to make these wonderful new features come to life. For me, personally, all I want/need at the moment is the bare ability to embed the Perl in my pages, and have the "object oriented" organizational capabilities of Embperl::Object.
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