Re: [Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-13 Thread Bobbi Fox
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Gyepi SAM wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:46:15PM -0400, Philipp Hanes wrote: Good surveys are quite difficult to construct. snippage ensued \fox I just took the survey and agree that many of the single choice questions should have been multiple choice. Like many

Re: [Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Devers
On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Personally, I was annoyed by one of the pages that required me to rank my interest in technologies that I may not have heard of. It didn't permit leaving the row blank, and there was no don't know column. Saying you have no interest in something

[Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Metro
Original Message Subject: [Linux Mag Weekly] ... Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:32:07 -0700 From: Linux Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Linux Magazine's Software Developer Survey We're looking for a few good developers. Software development is one of Linux Magazine's core

Re: [Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Jul 12, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: i hate that attitude 'are you still using perl?'. perl seems to be more ... eleven lines of non-capitalized blah blah blah ... almost every shop. sometimes you have to look for it but it is there. A I assume that you wrote

Re: [Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-12 Thread Jason McIntosh
On a lighter note, I found myself wondering yesterday how many fresh Perl newbies may have wandered in recently because of the xkcd cartoonist's open appreciation for Perl. (See, for example, http://xkcd.com/c224.html) -- Jason McIntosh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM:

Re: [Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Metro
Uri Guttman wrote: i hate that attitude 'are you still using perl?'. Agreed. And thus the posting. Andy Lester wrote: I assume that you wrote that rant AFTER you filled out their survey to say that you are still using Perl, right? Exactly! Uri Guttman wrote: ...a dumb perl hacker is