Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-07 Thread Tom Metro
Jesse Vincent wrote: [I'm] generally seeing pushback only from folks who'd rather RT be written in Python... I'd be curious to know what reasons they state for that, if they've bothered to explain. -Tom ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

[Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-05 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:16:36AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > Adam Turoff wrote: > >Tom Metro wrote: > >>Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>Hmmm...isn't that sort of what were talking about? If there's no job > >>market for Perl, that's kinda hard to do. Even if you run a

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
Aaron Sherman wrote: CPAN continues to be one of the most useful resources on the planet. That requires a HUGE user-base, but there's plenty of room for the Javas and the Rubys and the Pythons and the C#s of the world. Someone commented recently on the london-ruby list that they wish more

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-05 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:16 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > I'd be willing to bet that Jesse has encountered, with some regularity, > resistance to commercial adoption of RT due to its use of Perl. Ah... hey, I'm a fan of RT overall, but lack of commercial adoption would be a result of the fact that

[Boston.pm] Re: Perl Products

2005-03-04 Thread Tom Metro
Adam Turoff wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If Perl per se matters to you that much, then you should find some way to make it your day job. Hmmm...isn't that sort of what were talking about? If there's no job market for Perl, that's kinda hard to do. Even if you run