On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> Quoting Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com>: >> >>> in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but >>> they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but >>> some actually learned perl. >> >> Yes. I'm well aware of the effects of Matt's scripts. In fact I think I >> may have already mentioned that in this very discussion. >> > > you did but i didn't see that before i posted. the number of posts about > matt's crap on usenet was enormous. it took the community way too long > to rewrite them in clean safe code. that archive is now also forgotten > as no one seems to mention them in the age of modern perl and such.
That's because the community missed something that the overwhelming majority still seems to miss: easy deployment of ready to use applications. Matt got that part right. Abigail
