Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

Lost my other thread sorry this is listed as a new topic. Going through some of my older e-mails finally from vacation, and there was an article from 01/15/2004 that pertains to the conversation or could... http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/15/1942236&tid= (news posting) http://www.perl.c

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Jan 18, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Gabor Urban wrote: I might know something for an answer. Though Perl is really good and fantastic, flexibole, etc. it has the bad reputation being hard to read. An average manager wants his or her stuff to be clean and neat. Seeing a tricky Perl code with regexp stuff

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

Hi, I might know something for an answer. Though Perl is really good and fantastic, flexibole, etc. it has the bad reputation being hard to read. An average manager wants his or her stuff to be clean and neat. Seeing a tricky Perl code with regexp stuff is rather alarming. On the other hand Pytho

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

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Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

"Dan Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, .asp, .dll, or > something which says that they aren't perl. Is there a reason more > businesses and online companies don't use perl? > > -Dan > There was a huge o

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

Bakken, Luke wrote: Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, .asp, .dll, or something which says that they aren't perl. Is there a reason more businesses and online companies don't use perl? -Dan I would bet just about every major company uses Perl in one way or another. The f

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:52:27PM -0600 James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Jan 17, 2004, at 3:51 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: > > >A recent article on Perl.com covered this a little: > > > >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/09/survey.html > > And look what I read on Slashdot today: > > http://

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

> Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, > .asp, .dll, or > something which says that they aren't perl. Is there a reason more > businesses and online companies don't use perl? > > -Dan I would bet just about every major company uses Perl in one way or another. The financial c

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Jan 17, 2004, at 3:51 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: A recent article on Perl.com covered this a little: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/09/survey.html And look what I read on Slashdot today: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/17/ 1435206&mode=thread&tid=100&tid=126&tid=1

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Jan 17, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Dan Muey wrote: [..] http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/09/survey.html Nice! folks may also take a look under the covers in the blogWare that is popular amongst various blogs out there. they might also look at what is under the covers in the wikipedia movement. So the fa

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> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/09/survey.html Nice! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Jan 17, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Dan Muey wrote: Of course, that's all just guess work on my part. I'm no expert. On the flip side, I believe Amazon.com uses a mostly Perl system, just to name a familiar name. There has to be others, I would think. Maybe a website listing should be made/found?? A

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

> In a job interview last year, I was talking to a company who > was in the > process of moving their big server application to Java from > its current > Perl base. They told me they felt like Perl was not ready for > professional server environments, but they had had a lot of success > with

Re: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Jan 17, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Dan Anderson wrote: Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, .asp, .dll, or something which says that they aren't perl. Is there a reason more businesses and online companies don't use perl? In a job interview last year, I was talking to a company who

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:21, Dan Muey wrote: > > Which has made me wonder more then once if in a security > > through obscurity approach sites pass perl scripts off as ASP, etc. > > > Maybe, I don't see why I'd want to make people think I'm using insecure > stuff when I'm really using the best,

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

> Which has made me wonder more then once if in a security > through obscurity approach sites pass perl scripts off as ASP, etc. > Maybe, I don't see why I'd want to make people think I'm using insecure stuff when I'm really using the best, but maybe. > For instance, Ebay's servers are run by

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

> - Are those on servers you work with? Those specific ones may use those for whatever > reason. No, just whenever I cruise the net I'm always surprised to see scripts ending in .asp or .jsp. I understand that some people prefer Java to Perl, but I know there are a lot of people out there who li

RE: Why isn't perl used more in business and industry

> Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, > .asp, .dll, or something which says that they aren't perl. > Is there a reason more businesses and online companies don't use perl? - People like to spend money for stuff for no goods reason. - Are those on servers you work with? Thos