On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Barb and Tim wrote:
> It could really enhance your integrity if you also
> presented honest evaluations of the downsides of Perl.
> The promotion of Perl on this site is so ubiquitous and
> one sided, and Perl has such a bad reputation in many ways,
> that somebody like me has a hard time swallowing the sunny
> prognostications and finally diving in, unless I see
> full honesty. The language itself is hard enough to swallow.
This is not an advocacy group. Problems with mod_perl and (more rarely)
perl (the standard imlementation) and Perl (the language as an abstract
definition) do show up here, if you wait long enough.
This group is for people who are trying to implement, use and improve
mod_perl. I think you'll find that many of the people on the list have
gone through some exhaustive searching BEFORE stumbling upon mod_perl.
Many, if not most, have significant backgrounds in many other development
(web and other) systems and languages.
I like perl, Perl, and mod_perl. I think most of the people on this list
do, as well.
You're not likely to get a bunch of apologies for that.
If you don't like something about any of the 3 parts, please try and help
fix it. Or just find something else that you do like. Perhaps you'll find
that other systems are better suited to what you do. Perhaps not, and
you'll end up back here again. I'm sure that would be fine with anyone on
the list.
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-- Tom Mornini
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