SPUG: Perl FUD

B.Ingerson at epixtech.com B.Ingerson at epixtech.com
Tue Jul 25 14:33:17 CDT 2000


... and don't make blanket statements about Perl either. It's wonderful for
many specific reasons.

Brian

"Skahan, Vince" <Vince.Skahan at pss.boeing.com>@pm.org on 07/25/2000 12:24:43
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Subject:  RE: SPUG: Perl FUD





what image (other than it works, and works wonderfully) do you think
you need to beat ?

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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
> To:     'spug-list at pm.org'
> Subject:     SPUG: Perl FUD
>
> 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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