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On 12/01/2010 10:46 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > But even what we have today we could achieve much better results if > the perception of people was better. Yes. We definitely need to work on the perception of Perl. I have the same experience as a previous poster, whenever I mention Perl, some wise guy pipes up and says it's a dead language. > With my original question I wanted to know what technological and > perception related issues people see. We already got some material but > I'd be happy to see more comments. Right now? I need support for IPv6, actually support for dual-stack in standard library calls and in the major CPAN modules. Preferably transparent one, not one involving loading a special library, and patching third party modules to call Socket6 instead of Socket, or whatever. > Especially from those who work with > people who are not involved in the Perl community. How do your peers > and your bosses see Perl? As a dead language, appropriate for has-beens and maybe, *maybe* an occasional sysadmin. (When I came to this shop I discovered the previous sysadmin wrote a number of command-line and cron-run tools using PHP+zend. What a nightmare).Thread Previous | Thread Next