Stephen A. Jarjoura wrote:
... now work in an almost totally Win2k/2k3 environment.
In this setting, Perl isn't even considered a real programming language.
It's referred to as scripting as opposed to programming, and while
the developers program in ASP.NET, I only script in Perl.
Interesting. But
: [Boston.pm] advocacy, et al.
The prospect of wading through tons of OO PHP code in order to customize
a CMS is disheartening. Having to learn Python just to use some of the
great Python based CMS's is even more depressing. I just wanted an easy
to use, easy to set-up and install, easy to theme
that's broken.
-DJCP
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Stephen A. Jarjoura wrote:
In this setting, Perl isn't even considered a real programming
language. It's referred to as scripting as opposed to
programming...
I had thought we had gotten rid of that false impression, but I guess
not. I was surprised a month ago when I was talking with one of the
Hey, I was on vacation for the last two weeks and get back to find more mail on
the Boston.PM list then it's generated in the last year! Wholey Moley! I was a
good monger though, and read all of it ... today. Compressing the entire debate
and all of the side threads, and the parody play, all
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The prospect of wading through tons of OO PHP code in order to customize
a CMS is disheartening. Having to learn Python just to use some
See, now we're talking
Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
What about a website advertising scheme? Make a really
neat/interesting/technological website based out of Perl and then see if
we could get some companies to advertsie it (such as O'Reilly, Apache,
and
Google)?
Why make something that
When it comes to large companies, that real estate becomes
valuable territory and they're not going to donate it for free.
The technology you use is an internal decision. It has no
relevance to the customer. What is the business case for
putting it out there? If you're going to ruin your
Strictly speaking I don't think advertisement did much for Java. Sure,
you see lots of ads for Java related products now, which maintains a
high visibility for Java, but they exist because the Java market exists.
Sure it did. Again, we're talking more about managers and boss types.
When a
Sean Quinlan wrote:
I also strongly concur with brian_d_foy's goal of getting more people
(including myself ;) publishing well written articles about Perl. I
think getting more well-written technical articles, that just happen to
use Perl, into general computing periodical is a great, unobtrusive
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:04:34 -0500, Tom Metro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Quinlan wrote:
[...]
If Amazon, Yahoo, Ticketmaster, etc. are already using Perl in a big
way, then why not put effort into making that more visible?
One way is through a silly button campaign. Built with Perl,
Ben Tilly wrote:
...the next step would be getting the big name
users of Perl to put [buttons] on their sites.
This step is easier said than done.
Absolutely. I thought of the reasons you list, but the counter argument
is that a company would promote their use of Perl for the same reasons
they
John Tsangaris wrote:
Is a group needed specifically for the promotion of perl?
Might not be a bad idea. It could either be a sub-group of the Perl
Foundation, or mirror it, with the focus on advocacy.
But I don't think advertising would be an efficient way to spend the
money. Instead spend it
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