On 12/01/2010 10:46 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
But even what we have today we could achieve much better results if
the perception of people was better.
Yes. We definitely need to work on the perception of Perl.
I have the same experience as a previous poster, whenever I mention Perl,
some wise guy pipes up and says it's a dead language.
With my original question I wanted to know what technological and
perception related issues people see. We already got some material but
I'd be happy to see more comments.
Right now? I need support for IPv6, actually support for dual-stack in
standard library
calls and in the major CPAN modules. Preferably transparent one, not one
involving loading
a special library, and patching third party modules to call Socket6
instead of Socket, or whatever.
Especially from those who work with
people who are not involved in the Perl community. How do your peers
and your bosses see Perl?
As a dead language, appropriate for has-beens and maybe, *maybe* an
occasional
sysadmin. (When I came to this shop I discovered the previous sysadmin
wrote a number
of command-line and cron-run tools using PHP+zend. What a nightmare).
