On 7/5/06, Jonathan T. Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The thing about using MediaWiki is that it's not written in Perl. Not that PHP is bad (ok, yes it is bad...), but doesn't it send some sort of negative message when Perl QA doesn't use a Perl-based Wiki?
Do I worry that qa.perl.org is running Apache? That's not written in Perl. I'm sending mail via GMail, you're using Thunderbird. Not Perl. This mailing list is run with ezmlm on qmail. They're not written in Perl. What message are we sending using all this non-Perl software? That we use the best tool for the job, not the one with the best political connections. That we're focused on QA and not in the business of maintaining MTAs, MUAs, web servers, mailing lists or wikis. If it bothers you that we're not using a Perl-based wiki, improve the Perl wikis. Or think less provincially, its ok to use more than one language. Or don't let it bother you. Honestly, it could be written in COBOL for all I care. Its well written, it works well and, thanks to Tyler MacDonald, it works now.