Re: [MacPerl] Perl Usage Survey -[veering OT]

[Eric Dobbs <dobbs@epost.com>]

>At 04.59 -0500 1998.11.06, Jay Bedsole wrote:
>>users (who probably outnumber Mac users 50 to 1) have only twice
>>as many votes as the Mac OS... this tells me that the average
>>Mac user is more likely to be a technical person than the average
>>windows user... actually, I can't say I'm that surprised. <WINK>
>
At 7:32 AM -0500 11/6/1998, Chris Nandor wrote:
>I think this is absolutely true, though I think that it is primarily
>because nontechnical people are much more likely to use the monopoly OS
>than a nonstandard, "dying" OS.  Those of us who stick with Mac OS are,
>conversely, much less likely to be nontechnical people.

Ironic, isn't it, given the non-technical *image* that we Mac
users are often burdened with?

I'd like to just underscore a point Jay made and expand it a bit.  I
think Mac users are far more likely to be able to work across
platforms -- perhaps out of necessity.  For example, I think you learn
pretty quickly about line endings, different character sets, different
volume and path conventions and so on.  I agree that we're likely to
do perl on many platforms, but we're likely to do many things on many
platforms.

(and now back to your regularly scheduled MacPerl list  8^)

-Eric



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