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> > My greatest hope for it is that it be a catalyst for more > > corporate entities to embrace Perl > > That is absolutely hideous. What about "corporate entities" makes you > desire their embrace? I'd prefer they stayed at arms length. Pass the > cash through bullet-proof glass, that sort of thing. No no no. I'm not talking about corporate interference or selling out like [...] is trying to do with perl. I just mean that, since I began actively advocating Perl in 95, one of the most common corporate responses is "Where's the buttons?" This is reflected in the ubiquitous newbie question "How do I run a program?" or "Where's the Editor?". This has been a stumbling block for Perl in the Win32 community. By providing the IDE interface, the buttons to push, the place to type, the help in a Win32-normal help system, and a standard port of Win32 perl, I'm hoping to make it more attactive to people in charge. If the people in charge see perl as a complete system rather than as an "old, worn out unix method" (quoting my previous supervisor, whose job I now hold), then exhausted programmers can go home to their families at 5pm rather than staying until midnight every night trying to do perl's job in visual basic or c and fighting with the microsoft support systems. Old marketing surveys from 96-97 showed that companies were moving from Novell and Unix to NT because they thought they had no choice. Since that time, that choice has been a painful and expensive one. If we can't straighten out microsoft for them, we can at least give them high quality tools. Advocacy is a good thing, right?Thread Previous | Thread Next