Neil Gunton wrote:
Incidentally, wouldn't it be nice to have a Wiki package written in
Embperl, and then host the Embperl Wiki using this? Kinda
self-referential. I don't really have a good handle on how complex a
Wiki package would be. I feel like it's just a content management system
with anonymous edits and a database backend, with version control.
Probably a lot more to it than first sight, as usual. Does anybody think
there's any good reason to roll our own as a showcase for Embperl? Are
the other Wikis out there missing something that would be good to have?
Looking more at Kwiki, it appears that a substantial amount of work has gone into this package
already, so perhaps re-inventing the wheel isn't such a great idea! ;-)
Typical with Perl - whatever you want to do, it's probably already been done by about 50 other
developers, all of whom have put their modules up there on CPAN. Man, why on earth isn't Perl more
widely respected among the younger crowd?
I think the top "mythconceptions" about Perl are that:
1. It's slow, because it's CGI (aaargh!)
2. It's hard to read (i.e. write-only)
Both of these just drive me crazy when I hear them. Oh well.
I'm sorry, but I'll take up farming as a career before I do Java on a day-to-day basis as my primary
programming language. And as for PHP, I have nothing against it, but I don't really see why I should
use it when there are already so many modules out there for Perl.
Ok, back to work...
/Neil
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