[MacPerl] [Off-topic] Blatant Boosterism

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 16:36 -0800 12/2/98, Rich Morin wrote:
> There are lots of folks out there that are trying to write off the Mac
> and anything associated with it.  Call me a fanatic, but I just replaced
> my 7100 with a G3; the only PC in our house runs FreeBSD!
>
> I want the MacPerl folks to help popularize Macs, Perl, _and_ MacPerl.
> By participating in the Survey, we may throw the accuracy of the numbers
> off a bit, but I submit that this is not entirely a bad thing...

The iMac has outsold other PCs now for three months running :-)

Personally, I wouldn't want one in the house (people either love the design
or hate it :-) but Apple stock is up.  Not that all those iMac buyers will
use MacPerl, but at least there are more of "us" than there were...

- Vicki
(happy to be working at an essentially all-Mac (with some Unix thrown in)
Company)
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