<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I think it's because people want things that are easy right out of the box. I love perl because I am unconstrained, but I feel like some are intimidated by that freedom. They would rather spend less time exploring and simply have something that "just works" for their specific task.<br><br></div><div>Open source is great when you have the will, but many would rather just be shown the way.</div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:40 PM, "<a href="mailto:Martin@Cleaver.org">Martin@Cleaver.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Martin@Cleaver.org">Martin@Cleaver.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Perhaps... because beginners evaluate which language they should learn.<br><br>And experts (and old-timers, take yer pick) think "better the devil you know".<br><br>M.<br clear="all">--<br><a href="mailto:Martin@Cleaver.org">Martin@Cleaver.org</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/mrjcleaver">http://twitter.com/mrjcleaver</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Shaun Fryer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfryer@sourcery.ca">sfryer@sourcery.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
buzzword bingo?<br>
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bill Stephenson <<a href="mailto:bills@ezinvoice.com">bills@ezinvoice.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This email list used to bustle. It was active and vibrant.<br>
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> No more. Now it is practically dead.<br>
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> It would seem that right now, when "Web Apps" are really coming into their<br>
> own, CGI scripts written in Perl would be the place that "Beginners" would<br>
> start looking.<br>
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> But there are no beginners here anymore.<br>
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> Why is that?<br>
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