On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Brian E. Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@massassi.com">brian@massassi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I thought Amazon had a lot of perl devs?<br></blockquote><div><br>Once upon a time in an amazonian climate not so far away... Yes.<br><br>But perl is now non-grata, due to an excess of bad program design implemented in perl that resulted in some truly spectacular failures and system opacity that led to the need to re-engineer entire systems at significant time and monetary cost. They didn't choose perl for the replacement.<br>
<br>Now the perl is mostly limited to the Mason page render system and reporting scripts. Most of the actual services or applications are run by Java and C++. <br></div><div><br>Of course, the actual problem was in the programmers, not in the language, but try and convince people that there are perl programmers who actually do know how to design applications...<br>
<br>It frequently feels like everybody around is into Java, C++, or Ruby... even if they KNOW perl, they avoid it and try to talk their way into working in other languages.<br><br>David<br><br clear="all">"If only I could get rid of hunger by rubbing my belly" - Diogenes<br>
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