[Omaha.pm] Some manager said.....

[Dave Thacker]

On Friday 05 June 2009 12:34:13 Jay Hannah wrote:
> -laugh-  I remember in 1999 when the head of IT at $day_job told me Perl is
> dead. Weird that his language of choice at the time has now been
> discontinued. Meanwhile, the CPAN upload graph is still going straight up.

I remember that guy,  he saw the learning perl book on my desk and asked me 
why I wanted to learn a dead language...

Folks at new day job wonder why I don't want to write java..... (sigh)
DT
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> You can find naysayers for every language. Every company bars hundreds of
> languages (all those they don't use). Fear not for Perl.   :)
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> j
> Your soothing voice of anti-FUD.
>     (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.)
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> From: Trey Bianchini
> Sent: Fri 6/5/2009 8:49 AM
> To: Jay Hannah
> Subject: Some manager said.....
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> I noticed this comment while researching a Catalyst problem I'm having....I
> thought you might like this as perlmonger fodder or not....
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> MojoMojo, a Catalyst-based wiki.
> Author Profile Page theVoiceOfReason | November 14, 2008 12:35 PM | Reply
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> I recently suggested that Catalyst be used for a new web application we're
> developing and the manager in charge said the Perl was considered legacy in
> the company and prohibited from use for new projects. Has anyone seen this?
> I'm new at a mid-size to large east coast (USA) company. If you have seen
> this, how do you combat it?