Re: 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun

2008-02-19 Thread Foo JH
Personally I am looking forward to new ecosystems supporting the Perl community. Efforts like swish-e, kinosearch, (SDK for) Asterix are good examples. Remember that Perl - like any other product - needs to constantly renew itself before it is irreversibly outdated. Warnings signs will be what

RE: 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun

2008-02-19 Thread Bharucha, Nikhil
Exactly, MS aint stupid. Perl on Windows via ActiveState is stable and relatively straightforward and of course powerful. Perl aint going nowhere. The need for a "scripting language" will never go away. Large applications will always need "bridge" programs etc. Additionally, many companies are