> with your hair on fire, others aren't so "Lucky". I've been
> researching ecommerce and content management solutions for my
> company (take a guess who), and the Java technologies are
> *filled* with marketing hype that makes all the business
> users drool. I almost bought into it completely.
>
> I don't want to suggest that the Perl community should stoop
> as low as Java, but they have a very good thing going for
> them. They're presenting their data (very very skewed data,
> but data nontheless) in a very whizz-bang fashion, saying all
> the right words like "Inheritance", "Encapsulation", and
> bunches of other things that the marketroids gloss over at
> and think "Wow, this must be great stuff if I can't
> understand it!". What do we say with perl? "Scripting
> language", "Package", "Subroutine", "Array" and "Hash".
> While we can do almost everything that Java can do (we can,
> can't we?), we can do it a whole lot faster, in an
> easy-to-code fashion.
sounds like we need a 'hacketer': hacker/marketer. any hackers out there
with MBA's or is that an oxymoron?
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