Re: There is no cabal
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:49:16PM +0200, Richard Foley wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008 18:41:00 Andy Lester wrote: There is no Perl Cabal There usually is one, somewhere, if you look closely enough... Only one? The question is whether the cabal is an array or a scalar. Personally I think it is a hash. (Or involves hash...)
Re: What *is* advocacy?
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:00 +0530, thebest wrote: Good Article David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As some of you may know, White Camels were originally given in three categories, Advocacy, Community and User Groups. Although we've been a bit fuzzy on those divisions in actually giving the awards of late, we do use them during the selection process to keep things a little more organized. It's now time for us to pick White Camel winners for this year, and someone asked me to define Advocacy, and I'm not quite sure how to do that for this purpose. I figured you folks should have some ideas. :-) If I'm right, they'll be appreciated. Many thanks, Advocacy is getting other people interested in using Perl. -- And may the Schwartz be with you!
Re: Sun: Developers want more, not fewer features
If Sun really felt this way, they would distribute with current tools and more of them on Solaris. (And maybe even keep them current and patch them quickly.) In that regard, they maker Microsoft look like a responsive company... On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: It's all in the marketing, I guess. We're a Swiss Army Chainsaw but they're just responding to customer demands. Bah. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19474.html Sun brushed aside the 'Put Java On A Diet' by saying that developers want more, not fewer features. And Register readers overwhelmingly agree with Big Mauve. It's not a hairball, Pat Sueltz told us. It's becoming quite handsome. Rickie Green, Sun's VP of Java Development added: It's a very delicate dance you have to do. Developers are asking for more and more features; individuals are saying to us we have not enough in Swing and EJBs and so on. You don't want to create too much bulk and damage the footprint, but the trend in the market has been to more and more services, he said. ... Nat [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame.
Re: More subtle Perl-bashing from the Python front
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Chris Nandor wrote: Hm. I said his arguments boiled down to the fact that he likes Python better. You recalled reasons why he likes Python better. Yup. I think it boils down to nastalgic fondness for their old TV show and a few of their movies. But I could be wrong. [I have to stop listening to Dennis Miller while posting. Maybe I should switch to Firesign Theatre radio shows...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: Perl's market share for web programming
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Kirrily Skud Robert wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Vanderhoof, Tzadik wrote: I agree that there definitely needs to be some kind of "Web app package" for Perl that puts everything together that you need. Also, at the risk of being a broken record, I'm still waiting for a document that does a point-by-point comparison between Perl and ColdFusion solely in the domain of Web app development. I think Perl would compare favorably, even though ColdFusion is useable only in that one domain and Perl is much more broad, but I don't have any evidence to support this feeling. Well, for a start, here's CF's list of features according to Allaire: http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=13488Method=FullTitle=ColdFusion%204%2E5%20FeaturesCache=False Actually I wonder why anyone uses Cold Fusion at all. PHP is a much better product and it is free. PHP has features from Perl, including the ability to use Perl regular expressions. For certain types of web pages, it is better suited for scripting than Perl. It does not replace it for complex tasks. (In fact, you can call Perl scripts from PHP if you want.) Of course, that viewpoint is probably heretical here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
