Re: [FWP] Perl Moral Support

[Kevin Cureton <kevinc@pdi.com>]

> Did this come from some random cow orker or from management?

Alas it came from a cow-orker. Management has been fairly quite
about language debates. However, the techinical side talks about
it quite a lot. For a free lynching, mention C++ in any R&D meeting.

> The Python/Perl thing sounds a bit to me like Esperanto/English:

That is the way it strikes me as well. I am more of a mind to let
people select the tools they can be proficient with. The whole
Perl/Python/sh debate here stems from the fact that a large part
of pipeline development has been in csh and sh. People are looking
for something else in an attempt to control the development. The
more core issue (instead of language debates) should be software
engineering. I drag it back to that when I can.

I did read the article by Paul Prescod and immediately blew it off.
If he can't give a fair comparision, then it is more of an editorial
than objective reporting. Editorials I can do without.

> "Why?"
>     They must have a reason.

I think there may be a measure of fear. Perl is more widely known
as a hacker language so that is how people who are new to it see it.
I have worked really hard to make my code be clean and clear. Those
who bother to look at it realize it can be as maintainable as well-
written C (even more so because there is less of it).

> "Try Perl, you'll like it"

This has worked on many people here. Still, "upper" level developers
try to foist there beliefs on everyone else. I prefer to win people
over with Perl's abilities as opposed to dictate it to them (which
never works anyway).

> "I quit"

The job is too much fun to do that!

> Hey, if PDI happens to have a position for a Canadian
> Perl/mod_perl/DBI/Postgres/Linux hacker/admin who's permanently two
> courses short of a Bachelor's degree, never stops smiling, has a bit
> of experience in asset management, and is a SIGGRAPH-attending
> graphics geek on his vacation, I'd be happy to provide moral support
> in person.

Send me that resume! We are searching for good programmers and good
system administrators (Irix and especially Linux) for a variety of
positions here at PDI. Experience, personality, and pro-active 
thinking are more important than a degree. And I could always use
Another Perl Programmer around....

Kevin

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