On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:10:47 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0235220/perls-glory-days- > are-behind-it-but-it-isnt-going-anywhere > > > > We know we suck at marketing, but is there anything we are going to do > > about it? > > This is, basically, Jon Orwant's prophecy coming home to roost: "People > are going to move on and do something else." If Perl 6 was ready for > prime time, it would be a different story. > > Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about configuration management > frameworks like Chef, Puppet, and Saltstack. Those are Python- and Ruby- > based. He asked whether there was anything in that family based on > Perl. After extensive searching, I was forced to conclude that there > wasn't. If there had been, we would have tried to make it work. That > sucked. Not trying to blame anyone, and not trying to claim I have an > answer. Just generally disappointed. >
Just to throw out there something I came across a while back: (R)?ex - http://rexify.org/ Written in Perl and appears to be very similar to Ansible. Jeremy -- Jeremy Fluhmann *http://twitter.com/jfluhmann** http://jfluhmann.edublogs.org **http://linkedin.com/in/jfluhmann** Texas Linux Fest - http://www.texaslinuxfest.org Texas Open Source Project - http://texos.org YAPC::NA 2013 - **http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/*<http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/>
