Hiya, On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 11:59 PM, James Tillman wrote:
> Any manager who would make the simple use of StudlyCase and get/set a > prerequisite for acceptance doesn't have enough managerial skills to > make me > care whether he uses Perl or not. He'll just switch to C# later on, > anyway, > when he inevitably gets borg'ed by Microsoft. A good manager will be > more > interested in consistent coding style and design. So, who was it who said that (technology) managers in the enterprise world are good? My personal experience has been that: a) enterprise-type of people think perl is a hacker's language that is line-noise, totally unmaintainable and totally unsuited for large projects with enterprise requirements; b) enterprise-type of people think positive about perl code when it is not line-noise, when it shows good use of OO/patters and when it is actually being used in a large project (it probably reminded them of *good* java code for all I know). Bas.
