> >Can someone remind me why Perl needs to be more popular? What actual >problem will be solved? Are we running low on module developers? Running >low on core developers? Is the existing code-base evaporating? Are there >not enough t-shirt and book sales? How will we know when Perl is popular >enough? Wouldn't it be easier to just trash the reputations of other >languages? Should we have existing Perl users use Perl more often? >
I think your target audience is a little skewed from the original threads purpose. I don't recall anyone claiming that their are not enough programmers. I believe the problem was not enough unknowledgable, perl-accepting decision makers. It doesn't need to be more popular though. Nor does it need to be accepted by non-technical decision makers. These are not necessities. I just really liked programming in Perl for all those years, but since having a job means more to me than being able to choose which language I use in my job, I am now a C# programmer. This because perl was not popular enough to be supported by my non-technical and technical managers. I'm not complaining about learning a new language, I just really liked perl. It's almost like being laid off from a corporation because not enough customers wanted to purchase their product. So it is that I am no longer a "perl" programmer (defined by the language I use 50 hours a week as opposed to the language I use 5 hours a week on side projects). I am confident that, had perl more acceptance by those not in the know, the decision would have been made differently. And it's like they had to choose between the two languages as all of our legacy code is written in perl. Almost everything in-house is. It still did not prevent them from deciding that Perl was not supported enough to continue using it. >How will we know when Perl is popular enough? Oooh.. this ones easy. When my boss comes to me and says "use Perl for this next project". I wouldn't ask for more perl popularity than that. I hope I made the problem at hand more clear. -John _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
