Note: Beware! Default reply-to is to the list. Hello, Francois, & others,
There were some interesting points made there, and the perl-monks discussion was well worth reading along with all the related links (x-planes, wow!). While cbrandtbuffalo does a good job of promoting why perl should be used, or why it should not be left unused, brian d. foy (shades of e.e. cummings) sidetracks to make his own point that the problems of code are more often related to slack management practices which even if true does not help perl. I am sure that perl is being written right now, that daily it runs in a million places, that all perl practitioners vow it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, that job advert analysis show a healthy demand for perl skills, etc. But back to Kexi, new news looking at the things to come on the scripting scene. Across the KDE board the solution is to be http://kross.dipe.org/index.html which allows plugins to be written to support whatever language you want to write your scripts in. What have we at the present moment? Python. Ruby. Javascript. Falcon. here we have a major effort ..... whoa! Falcon? That's a new one, to me at least. here we have a major effort, Kexi and KDE, looking at scripting and apparently no one is even aware of perl. From my narrow perspective I thought perl was _the_ scripting language bar none, and here we have a hotshot new language getting into a very public slot that we apparently do not even know exists. So the problem that I see may be one of advocacy. Do not the Perl Foundation, the monks, mongers, & porters, have a way of looking at what is happening and directing resources? I guess not, it would be up to individual perlers to take the light where needed, come up with a grant proposal to the Perl Foundation, or even just do it. I am not really complaining, just disappointed and surprised that such a very public thing seems to have slipped under the perl radar. I just never imagined that in any major linux application (well, KOffice thingys are hardly 'utilities') would feature scripting without perl at the forefront. Obviously I was wrong. I'd offer my services if I were capable <blushes> but will take Kexi for what it is and concentrate on the catalyst angle when I get more spare time. Thanks for all the input. regards Anne On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:16:40 +0200 Francois Marais <franc...@busii.com> wrote: > _______________________________________________ Za-pm mailing list Za-pm@pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/za-pm posts also archived on Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/za-pm@pm.org/
