Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Suppresion

2011-12-10 Thread Greg London
I had an interview with Apple for a hardware design job a year or so ago. They said they explicitly forbid the use of perl for any of their glue function scripting needs. they said they use java. I think I was unable to entirely suppress how much I thought this was a stupid idea in the

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Suppresion

2011-12-10 Thread David Larochelle
Curious if they also banned Python and Ruby if they were against strongly typed languages. On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Greg London em...@greglondon.com wrote: I had an interview with Apple for a hardware design job a year or so ago. They said they explicitly forbid the use of perl for

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Suppresion

2011-12-10 Thread Chris Braiotta
On 12/9/11 7:20 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: this also means the other lang communities are too dumb to write their own libs to published apis. :) Or that other communities are smart enough to let someone else do the work! -- Chris Braiotta Network Services Architect Harvard University Information