Re: Sony support uses Perl

2011-03-11 Thread Joel Limardo
I like sites like the beginner site you mentioned and sites like perlmonks, but these sites all share something in common -- they are directed at the needs of the (prospective|current) developer. In today's businesses there are other individuals who decide upon a language to do development --

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2011-03-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Joel, On Tuesday 08 Mar 2011 15:41:26 Joel Limardo wrote: It is (kind of) nice to see that we have not totally dropped this subject. First off, defamation is defined as making untrue statements that injure someone's character or otherwise by making public facts about another that, although

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2011-03-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Gabor, On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 08:33:09 Gabor Szabo wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Joel Limardo joel.lima...@forwardphase.com wrote: Do we keep a list of current companies that are using Perl anywhere? I just noticed that Sony Support appears to be using Perl:

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-17 Thread Denny
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:33 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: There is an old and out of date list on TPF wiki https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?companies_using_perl but I don't think there is a real added value in such list. As Jan pointed out almost every company uses Perl in one form

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-17 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Denny 2...@denny.me wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:33 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: There is an old and out of date list on TPF wiki https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?companies_using_perl but I don't think there is a real added value in such list. As

Fwd: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-16 Thread Joel Limardo
... Exposing implementation details in an API is a flaw, not a feature. I'm only partially convinced with you here as too many API references would look like noise. I do, however, get a warm a fuzzy feeling that the technology is used widely when I see lots of 'powered by' logos or websites that

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Joel Limardo joel.lima...@forwardphase.com wrote: Do we keep a list of current companies that are using Perl anywhere?  I just noticed that Sony Support appears to be using Perl: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=HIDC10 There is an old and out

Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-13 Thread Joel Limardo
Do we keep a list of current companies that are using Perl anywhere? I just noticed that Sony Support appears to be using Perl: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=HIDC10

RE: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-13 Thread Jan Dubois
number but around 90% of them had downloaded ActivePerl at least once from an IP address owned by those companies. Cheers, -Jan From: Joel Limardo [mailto:joel.lima...@forwardphase.com] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 9:55 AM To: advocacy@perl.org Subject: Sony support uses Perl Do we

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-13 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Joel Limardo wrote: I think the difference here is significant. Is it enough that people and companies are using Perl and not talking about it, or should they be clear that they use it and rely upon it? Isn't it in the interests of Perl advocacy to present

RE: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-13 Thread Jan Dubois
Joel Limardo wrote: I disagree that your example discounts my point -- downloading Perl is not the same thing as building your online support system with it and not only leaving the .pl extension on your pages but leaving /perl/ in the URI.  The latter publicly says, 'hey, by the way...we use

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-13 Thread Joel Limardo
I like PerlBuzz alot. I think it is a good looking and exceedingly relevant site. I don't think, however, that it -- or building sites like it -- makes for a strong, centralized Perl advocacy initiative. I think PerlBuzz's strength is that it does what it says -- I get news and information about

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-13 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Joel Limardo wrote: You've suggested that I build something, but I think that will be ultimately ineffective. OK, so what do you want to have happen? -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance