Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Stas Bekman
Hey, aren't we decided to use the advocacy list for this kind of threads? You are funny folks, when you don't want us to discuss something here, you tell go talk about this somewhere else, so we did. Please follow your own suggestions. This current thread was split into 2, one discussed here and

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:34:00PM -0800, Ed Phillips wrote: > > >The troll vanisheth! > > ha! > > Reminds me of the Zen story of an old fisherman in a boat on a lake in a heavy can't >see your hands fog. He bumps into another boat, and shouts at the other guy, "Look >where you're going would

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
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

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Ed Phillips
>The troll vanisheth! ha! Reminds me of the Zen story of an old fisherman in a boat on a lake in a heavy can't see your hands fog. He bumps into another boat, and shouts at the other guy, "Look where you're going would you! You almost knocked me over." He pulls up beside the boat and is abo

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Eric Strovink
The troll vanisheth! - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mc5.law5.hotmail.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Leslie Mikesell
According to Barb and Tim: > It could really enhance your integrity if you also > presented honest evaluations of the downsides of Perl. Perl has two downsides. One is the start-up time for the program and mod_perl solves this for web pages. > The promotion of Perl on this site is so ubiquitous

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Barb and Tim wrote: > > It could really enhance your integrity if you also > presented honest evaluations of the downsides of Perl. WHy don't you start. -jwb

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Rod Butcher
Gunther's right, my apologies to all. I shall now disembowel myself with my IBM flowcharting template if I can find it. (Joke, really, a joke, not more sarcasm...). Rgds. Rod Butcher Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > Sarcastic responses do not help, regardless of how you feel about the > original po

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Barb and Tim wrote: > honest evaluations of the downsides of Perl Thanks for the note, and welcome. I'm not sure the mod_perl list is quite the place for this as a topic, so you other list readers might want to hit `D' now. The list is primarily for discussions

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Stas Bekman
> 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 > progn

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Rod Butcher
So, present us all with a detailed analysis of all Perl's failings and its bad reputation compaired the competition, so that we may see the light and turn to the true path. Until then we'll all stagger along happily in the darkness. Even better, write your own language like Larry did and see how m

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Tom Mornini
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 ha

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread stephen
Barb and Tim wrote: > full honesty. The language itself is hard enough to swallow. How is Perl hard to swallow? Perl is so easy and flexible. Stephen