Perl is a "Hot Skill"

pudge on 2000-07-18T14:18:06

jns writes "Computer Weekly (a UK magazine for 'IT professionals') featured Perl in its Hot Skills section in last weeks edition describing it as 'Unaccountable, unsurpassed'."

Well, duh. :-)


Organisations backing Perl...

bart on 2000-07-18T16:15:15

What's coming up?

ISO or Ansi standard Perl - or perhaps not.
Organisations backing Perl, such as Hewlett-Packard, think this would increase Perl's
acceptability. Wall is implacably opposed. "I'll be certified before Perl is," he says


"Organisations backing Perl, such as Hewlett-Packard"? Heck, as far as I know, this is just one person, Larry Rosler, who was speaking out his own, personal opinion.

This shows how seriously (or not) one should take the contents of this article.

This is an article?

technik on 2000-07-19T11:58:17

I've written more, and more useful stuff, on a yellow sticky.

I give the author credit for having a sense of humor, a tight deadline, and web browser.