Personally I am looking forward to new ecosystems supporting the Perl 
community. Efforts like swish-e, kinosearch, (SDK for) Asterix are good 
examples. Remember that Perl - like any other product - needs to 
constantly renew itself before it is irreversibly outdated.

Warnings signs will be what languages are being taught to CS students in 
the varities. In Singapore we used to teach Perl. Now it's all about 
Java and .Net.



Bharucha, Nikhil wrote:
> Exactly, MS aint stupid. Perl on Windows via ActiveState is stable and
> relatively straightforward and of course powerful.  Perl aint going
> nowhere.  The need for a "scripting language" will never go away.  Large
> applications will always need "bridge" programs etc.  Additionally, many
> companies are recognizing the power/code reuse/better code documentation
> aspects of using OO Perl.  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Angelos Karageorgiou
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:10 AM
> To: Foo JH
> Cc: Jan Dubois; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
> Subject: Re: 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun
>
> Foo JH wrote:
>   
>> I guess they're trying to get some inspiration from the Perl
>>     
> libraries/ 
>   
>> syntax for their next-gen scripting language?
>>
>> P#? PowerPerl?
>>   
>>     
> Foo JH wrote:
>   
>> I guess they're trying to get some inspiration from the Perl
>>     
> libraries/ 
>   
>> syntax for their next-gen scripting language?
>>
>> P#? PowerPerl?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Nah, they know what a powerful scripting engine Perl is and they are 
> trying to show that
> they do care about the existing smart technology. Of course they will 
> try to push their tech, but Perl is active and working Now. Like it was 
> when IIS first came out and that miserable server took a bite out of the
>
> market when PERL was ported to windows !
>
> I took a quick look at powershell and it turned my stomach. maybe I am 
> an old dog unable to learn new tricks like python and such, but 
> powershell I really did not like, maybe given enough time...
>
>
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