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Re: Witnessing for Perl

by zentara (Archbishop)
on Jan 27, 2008 at 18:18 UTC ( [id://664538]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Witnessing for Perl

how Perl is misunderstood

I havn't had experiences like yours, but my observation is how ignorant (and removed from the realities of computers) the management class is. Good programmers know the value of Perl, and managers just believe what they are told by teachers, and superiors; who generally believe rumors that Perl is an obsolete language meant for web programming. Linux use is even worse, most management types believe that Linux is an unstable, virus prone, unreliable OS. The truth is the opposite, but you can't tell a management type that. For one thing, they generally are afraid of having to learn something new( some are too dumb to learn... no kidding), and are constantly exposed to Microsoft propaganda.

The world is changing however; and as emerging economies grow using Linux and Perl ( because it is more economical and reliable), they will start to be more successful than the old stagnant companies stuck with Microsoft servicing charges( constant expensive updates, virus problems, and the looming lawsuits over lack of security). That really drags down a company's bottom line.


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Re^2: Witnessing for Perl
by renodino (Curate) on Jan 27, 2008 at 19:25 UTC
    ...how ignorant (and removed from the realities of computers) the management class is.

    Recruiters too. Go to DICE and enter a search for "Pearl". Even if you weed out the handful of entries located in Pearl Harbor, HI, you'll still get a lot of hits.

    I may even need to update my jobs chart script to include 'pearl' in the search terms.


    Perl Contrarian & SQL fanboy
Re^2: Witnessing for Perl
by Mutant (Priest) on Jan 28, 2008 at 11:07 UTC

    Unfortunately, there are plenty of developers (some of them even *good* developers, in other comparable langauges such as Ruby) who, for whatever reason, believe Perl is incomprehensible and obsolete. I'm sure we've heard all the arguments before, and know that there are perfectly good counter arguments, and that none of the arguments really fit in with our own experience anyway.

    These developers can also have a big influence on management (or else management doesn't care, and lets their devs deal with that level, resulting in perfectly good systems being rewitten from scratch, or holy wars between different factions of developers).

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