Re: [MacPerl] The Perl Usage Survey Continues...

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 17.39 -0500 1998.12.02, Greenblatt & Seay wrote:
>25% of the respondents use MacPerl.
>That's much more impressive than 5th place.

Actually, it is.  I suspect, however, that this is more a tribute to
blatant MacPerl boosterism (guilty, your honor :-) than a real reflection
of the community.  OTOH, Chris and Matthias got their paper dropped from
PC2.0 because nobody on the review committee thought anyone used MacPerl!
So, a little boosterism may be in order...

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...

Now, if I wanted to get _really_ crass, I'd suggest that folks buy MPPE
as presents for friends and relatives (but I'd never do that!  :-)

-r


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