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That's not exactly true. While its true that there issues with Perl. Its still by and large a language widely used by developers across the world. There is a al
by kamaal 12y ago
That's not exactly true. While its true that there issues with Perl. Its still by and large a language widely used by developers across the world. There is a also a huge and a very active community which does amazing things with it. Now taking away the name means re doing some 2.5 decades of marketing all over again. No body needs to go over that all over again.
There is a set of programmers with whom this won't go down well. Enterprise programmers and the hipsters.
- singingfish 12y agodon't forget the hipster enterprise programmers (aka the contractors)
- peterwwillis 12y agohow are contractors the hipsters of enterprises? if anything they're the yuppies. do whatever the fuck they want, get paid boatloads of cash, don't produce anything of value, are generally dicks. i think you're thinking of brooklyn trustfund hipsters, which are just the new yuppies.
- Ovid 12y agoI'm a consultant, produce plenty of value, have very happy customers, and I don't get called a "dick" too often. Don't pay all of us with the same brush, please :) (Note: I'm the guy who wrote the post OP linked to)
- singingfish 12y agoUs perl contractors (former in my case, a decent job in my home town with good working conditions came up) are what the enterprise turn to when they need to circumvent the bureaucracy.