Re: [FWP] Perl Moral Support

["Christoph Wernli" <cw@dwc.ch>]

Kevin Cureton wrote:
> 
> How does one counter statements like this:
> 
> > Python might be a good choice to replace both Perl and
> > Bourne shell for most scripting.  (Perl is still a great
> > language for small text-processing tasks.)
> 
> I find it really frustrating because they refuse to learn
> Perl, yet they are more than happy to bash on it. There
> are even a few people who don't consider me a "real"
> programmer since I don't spend my days writing C (mainly
> because I prefer to not bash my head on the wall).
> 
> I just need some moral support. I enjoy my fun times with
> Perl and will continue to do so. I am just tired of people
> who don't get it....

- Show them real-world perl applications
- Ask them if mod_pyth for apache is an alternative for mod_perl
- Point them to this list
- Point them to ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz
- Smile :)

-w

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