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Postings from June 2006
> Perl 5 is still going strong, not least because of Nick's resilience as > release pumpking, but the perception on the ground floor, (where the jobs > are), is that everywhere a manager would once have called for perl, it's > being replaced by calls for something else, like in web (goto php), network > (goto shell) and application (goto python or java - spot the gui) > programming. Perl has always sucked at desktop applications, mostly because we can't deliver applications in the same way we do regular things. Perl desktop applications should be able to install directly from CPAN on all three major desktop platforms, without any additional dependencies or installation steps, and then Just Work. As a sample case, App::GUI::Notepad is pretty close to meeting those criteria. For a huge proportion of the world, who are stuck on Windows and don't use Linux, we simply don't make Perl accessible enough. I'm working on that. Another point is that the quality of installation from CPAN in general is falling, in large part I think due to the way we do CPAN testing. I'm work on that too. Help would be wonderful... Adam K