On Oct 11, 2006, at 20:34, Matt S Trout wrote: > http://www.plat-forms.org/faq.htm > > They're having a platform war. We're forever left out of the ruby > vs. python > games, the "enterprise" people ignore us (though really, I'm not > sure I mind > that :) but ... > > "We have been considering Perl as one of the platforms to be > admitted to the > contest. So far, we have decided against it because we believe that > too few > professionals use it professionally for us to hope to get enough > requests for > admittance for the Perl platform. > > If you are a team that would like to participate and would like to > use Perl, > please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lutz Prechelt)." > > This is a bit of a shotgun e-mail. Several list admins are probably > going to > attempt to track me down and shoot me in the head. I don't care. > > Our community has repeatedly failed to market it's way out of a > paper bag, > I've even helped contribute to this with my eminently forgettable > London Web > Frameworks Night talk. But this is about producing working code. > *That* we > know we can do. > > Stand up and be counted. It's gotta be good for a laugh if nothing > else.
/me raises hand. /me decided not to say anything on london.pm as the normal perl attitude to php was showing up (ok, there was a good reason but still...) There's enough time until the competition starts to put the time aside. Do people need to email the organisers individually to get perl added or just mention willingness to join a team in this sort of space. nic ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Maypole-users mailing list Maypole-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maypole-users
