>This was one of the big reasons, most of these enterprise coders wanted Perl gone
I see some people disagree with you, but reading this reminds me of this anecdote :
My brother has a very high IQ score, but poor social skills. He once found employment in one of the very early companies developing websites in our area.
There was a process requiring to manually check hundreds of links for validity, which took large amounts of time to do (as in several developper hours weekly), and was error prone at that. The details are fuzzy as this happened some 30 years ago or so, but essentially he found a logical way to do the thing without error in 15 minutes.
The other developers went on a rampage to dismiss the solution, for fear of looking like idiots, and even though the solution was provable, my bro go fired, and went on to become a mechanic. What a shame though.
So, your comment rang a bell.
Also : I make a living developing and maintaining a handful of custom made SaaS for small clients on a LAMP stack (Linux Apache Mod_perl Postgresql). Very thrifty.
Little money, but loads of fun as far as I'm concerned
I see some people disagree with you, but reading this reminds me of this anecdote :
My brother has a very high IQ score, but poor social skills. He once found employment in one of the very early companies developing websites in our area.
There was a process requiring to manually check hundreds of links for validity, which took large amounts of time to do (as in several developper hours weekly), and was error prone at that. The details are fuzzy as this happened some 30 years ago or so, but essentially he found a logical way to do the thing without error in 15 minutes.
The other developers went on a rampage to dismiss the solution, for fear of looking like idiots, and even though the solution was provable, my bro go fired, and went on to become a mechanic. What a shame though.
So, your comment rang a bell.
Also : I make a living developing and maintaining a handful of custom made SaaS for small clients on a LAMP stack (Linux Apache Mod_perl Postgresql). Very thrifty.
Little money, but loads of fun as far as I'm concerned