Andy Lester wrote: > Like I replied to Joel's post... > > There's plenty of buzz about Perl. See our freshly released website > http://perlbuzz.com/ > > From our "Why Perlbuzz?" page at http://perlbuzz.com/why-perlbuzz.html : > > --quote-- > We hear it all the time: "Is Perl still around? I thought that everyone > moved on to (PHP, Ruby, whatever)" In fact, Perl 5 is alive and kicking, > and plenty of people are using it, creating new cool stuff all the time. > There's constant activity, but it doesn't get as much mindshare as some > of the newer sexy languages out there. That's a shame, and we're here to > fix that. > --endquote-- > > There's a lot going on. It's just not as sexy as being able to write > CRUD apps in half an hour. >
Actually its that anyone that knows what sexy is realizes you *can* write CRUD apps in half an hour with Perl, but that that isn't sexy. For those people that don't know that writing CRUD apps in half an hour isn't sexy, well... http://danconia.org > And I don't think it's a waste of time to talk about Perl. Indeed, why > else would one be on an advocacy list? > > xoxo, > Andy > > -- > Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance > > > >
