In a message dated Tue, 4 Dec 2007, cdumont writes:
oh, it might not be relevant in many ways but :
http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fails-at-the-internet/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.shtml
There's one thing I would like perl6 to shine in, is web and open source.
I know it's not the purpose of the language
and that the above articles are placed in a particular
context but I guess this can explain to some extends
why both perl don't have a widespread use in entreprise
and in open source project
(I have looked for them but they are little and some of them
like movable type moves to php at each upgrade)
May I divert from where this discussion would clearly go if your comment
were directly responded to (into a massive flame-fest, that is) just to
point out that this is not the purpose of the p6-l@ list?
This list is to discuss the Perl 6 core language.
The very notions of "enterprise" use and "open source" use and "web" use
are so amorphous that it is hard to imagine core language features that
would foster or discourage them. A language is an ecosystem, and it's
hard to argue that Perl has done poorly in any of the three; the fact that
other languages may currently have more forward momentum reflects, as much
as anything else, that Perl reached saturation in these areas many years
ago.
If you want to make specific recommendations with regards to the language
Perl 6, go ahead. But a free-for-all on Perl's successes and failures in
particular arenas is not what this list is for.
Trey