----- Original Message ----
> From: Octavian Râsnita <orasn...@gmail.com>
> To: modperl <modperl@perl.apache.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:25:44 PM
> Subject: Re: decline and fall of modperl?
>
> From: "Joe Schaefer"
> > Comparative analysis of programming languages has nothing whatsoever to
> > do with modperl, or even anything to do with the real needs of this
> > community
> > of users. It's simply an exercise in argumentation based on personal
> > experience alone by people who have absolutely no knowledge of any actual
> > relevant statistics on the subject (assuming there even *are* any such
> things).
>
> The original message that started this thread was:
>
> """
> > One of our customers is doing a detailed review of a mason/modperl ERP app
> we've built for them since 2001. Prodded by some
> > buzzword-compliant consultants they are expressing concerns that the app's
> underlying technologies - perl, modperl and mason - are
> > becoming obsolete. They feel that a web application framework must have
> 'rails' or some other buzzword in its name.
> """
"Consultants" who don't contribute anything to this community aren't our
concern- nor should they be.
>
> Of course this question should be answered with language comparisons,
Hardly. What matters is the quality of the software and whether or not
it meets the customer's needs. There's nothing wrong with recommending
the "right" tool for the job, even if the "right" tool isn't implemented
in perl.
> and of course that those answers should be based on our opinions and
> experience,
> because if there would be very scientific studies that show which of the
> languages are modern and which are obsolete, which are good and which are
> bad,
> it could be very simple to find the sites with those scientific studies using
> Google and it wouldn't need to be asked on a mailing list.
>
> Here is a good article written by Ovid - "Perl 5 is dying":
>
> http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/38010?from=rss
>
> We should also remember that somebody discovered that perl 5 is dying 9 years
> ago, and this was the thing that created the idea of perl 6, that should be
> totally different.
Languages don't die, they aren't people. People will continue to use
perl5 for the forseeable future, even after perl 6 is finally released.
