Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Greg London
On Wed, November 1, 2017 7:01 pm, Bill Ricker via Boston-pm wrote: > Everything has to do it the same way? > That's not TIMTOWTDI. Meh, TIMTOWTDI is essentially saying quantity is more important than quality. ___ Boston-pm mailing list

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Interesting observation on the s/o survey https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/10/31/the-most-disliked-programming-language/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Greg London wrote: >>> a real OO interface, >> Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough? > It looks amazing, but someone needs to go back and convert > all of cpan so blessed hashes are upgraded to moose. Everything has to do it the same way? That's not TIMTOWTDI. >

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Greg London
On Wed, November 1, 2017 1:34 pm, Bill Ricker wrote: > On Wed, November 1, 2017 3:42 am, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > >> We may have a bit of an image problem. >> a real OO interface, > Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough? It looks amazing, but someone needs to go back and convert all of

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Wed, November 1, 2017 3:42 am, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > We may have a bit of an image problem. > Perl was the #1 most disliked Who'd have guessed the language / culture that surpassed the Obfuscated C contest with invention of golf scoring might have an image problem? Web 1.0 was built

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Greg London
About 8 years ago, I interviewed at (internationally recognized company name redacted) and they said they have a policy that perl is explicitly not allowed. My resume mentions that I wrote a book about perl. Interview pretty much ended at that point. Perl allowed a number of issues to creep in

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Mike Small
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey writes: > We may have a bit of an image problem. Perl was the #1 most disliked > language in a recent poll on Stack Overflow. Surprisingly, Delphi was > #2; I didn't think it was known and used widely enough to score that > high on the list. I run into this sometimes at

[Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
We may have a bit of an image problem. Perl was the #1 most disliked language in a recent poll on Stack Overflow. Surprisingly, Delphi was #2; I didn't think it was known and used widely enough to score that high on the list.