SPUG: Perl FUD
Skahan, Vince
Vince.Skahan at pss.boeing.com
Tue Jul 25 13:24:43 CDT 2000
what image (other than it works, and works wonderfully) do you think
you need to beat ?
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The DoJ has determined that Linux has established and exploited a monopoly in the
nonproprietary UNIX market by means of predatory zero pricing and blatantly superior
implementation - Stan Kelly-Bootle (Performance Computing - 9/98)
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> From: Paul Farrall[SMTP:PFarrall at getthere.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:48 AM
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> Hi,
>
> At the Perl Conference Town Meeting, someone got up and said; "Perl
> has a serious image problem, what can we do to address this?". At the
> time, I thought wow it must suck to work at a place where the bosses
> buy into all the Perl FUD strewn about. Foolish me........
>
> When I got back to work on Monday, I sent a summary of the conference
> to my department and the following reply came back from the VP of
> Engineering.
>
> > Given security issues, is it a good idea to be using PERL for our
> > tools?
>
> Does anyone have any good advice on how to respond to this? Keep in
> mind that this guy is my boss :-).
>
> Thanks
> Paul Farrall
>
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