In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? > > http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ > > Note that blog comments that say, "you're wrong!" are more harmful > than helpful. I mean is there a report or something with real data to > show otherwise? Here's the relevant quote: For all of its strengths, perl seems to be going the way of the dinosaur. Most new, open source talent is being funneled into Java, PHP, Ruby, and Python. I think that's related to an earlier assertion: Even the lead developer, David Wheeler, has not mentioned the project on his personal blog in two years. For all practical purposes, the Bricolage project should be considered dead When people don't talk about using Perl and the cool things they are doing with Perl, people aren't going to think people are using Perl. The best way to deal with the problem is to talk about how you are using Perl, how it solved your problems, how it makes your life better, and so on. Tell a positive story. Show that you are alive. :) A lot of the Perl people have grown tired of talking about what they are doing. They have blog fatigue. I certainly don't blog about it as much as I used to. Apparently you don't either. While we get the fatigue, new players like Rails comes along with a bunch of fanboys and starts their cycle. Eventually those people will use Rails and just forget to talk about it in public because. People are always going to have bad things to say about Perl. Getting into a tit-for-tat with each side throwing their own reports and statistics at each other doesn't do anything for the average person who just wants to get work done. If I were you, I'd just reply to his points about Bricolage and its future and not worry about the the dinosaur comment. It's not a good metaphor anyway: the dinosaurs ruled the planet and it took an earth shattering asteroid to get rid of them. :)
