On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
According to Michael Lazzaro:As someone who has 90% of their projects relying very critically on speed
... an anecdote ...
Yes.
and who has had to battle a number of clients' IT departments over the years in defense of said speed compared to other popular languages which, out of spite, I will not name,
... and a public relations issue.
Yes, again.
Let us not confuse them.
I'm not sure I understand which part of that is in conflict. Is it the premise that some people use Perl in environments in which speed is an issue, the premise that Perl5 has a public relations issue about being inappropriate for speed-critical environments, or the conflation that someone that works in speed-critical environments, and wishes to use Perl, is going to run up against the public-relations issue?
MikeL
