hfb writes "The June 2001 issue of Fast Company
Magazine, page 156, features Perl as being one of the "best-of-the-best innovations - technologies
that set the business agenda". It is listed as one of the ubiquitous technologies of
the information age along with the bar code, the .signature file, the lab mouse, the
catalytic converter and the Hertz #1 Club Gold program. A scan of the page is at history.perl.org for all posterity."
Unfortunately, they don't let you vote for Perl...
jjn1056 on 2001-05-19T02:26:22
Maybe my browser is broken?
Re: Perl...
yaphet on 2001-05-21T06:39:06
Observations...
O: "Perl has been hailed..."
R: The empahasis is on "has been"
O: "Perl is a poster child for the open-source software revolution."
R: Poster child...I agree.
O: "Perl was created by linguist Larry Wall to mimic natural languages."
R: In no true sense of the word "linguist" is Larry Wall a linguist. He may be (a) "linguist after a fashion"; (b) "self-styled linguist";
or an "amatuer linguist". Just because something is repeated over and over does not make it so.
O: "This allows Perl programmers a large measure of creative expression in the way that they build sites..."
R: And a large measure of creative expression in producing unmaintainable code. The advantages of rapid deployment time are lost to the disadvantages of maintaining a "write-once" language. Of course, the guilty have long since fled the scene (kinda' like deadbeat dad's...).
O: "It's one of the many indications of the cultlike following..."
R: Again...I agree. Businesses need solutions, not cults. "No thank you, I gave at the office."
O: "With my linguistics background..."
R: "Exposure to linguistics" would be more correct.
O: "I've learned that a language without a culture is a dead language"
R: And what about a language with a debased culture...a culture of theft...a culture bereft of vision...a culture of elitism...that is to say, the culture of Perl?
Cheers!
Re: Perl...
wickline on 2001-05-21T10:58:43
Hey cool!
It just isn't a real Slash site without trolls.
Greetings, yaphet
:)
-matt
