develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from May 2000

Re: Thoughts on maintaining perl

From:
Matt Sergeant
Date:
May 26, 2000 00:22
Subject:
Re: Thoughts on maintaining perl
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.21.0005260821270.25717-100000@ted.sergeant.org
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:

> Tom Christiansen [tchrist@chthon.perl.com] quoth:
> *>more conceptual blindspots.  It's like knowing how to boil but not
> *>fry.  Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
> 
> Indeed. But, what is it about Perl that attracts the sort of mythology it
> has?

The graduation from HTML monkey to CGI expert.

-- 
<Matt/>

Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists
Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions
Email for training and consultancy availability.
http://sergeant.org http://xml.sergeant.org

nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About