[MacPerl] Maybe offtopic: workflow, justification, Mac-hatred and the big winworld

["John-Michael Keyes" <jk@syndicatedmedia.com>]

Dunno, maybe offtopic, but who else, except folks on this list, can answer?
I write tons of perl. Mostly weblications (wouldn't know an MPW if it bit me
in the toolbox).  Mostly lands on sparcs. Mostly for for inter/intranet
users. All of it written on one of my macs. The allure of contracting a
little perl sang its siren song and I discover that zdnet is right. There's
plenty-o-windows out there. And IS people are cranky about macs. Emotional,
irrational, zealous, hatred for macs exists.

I develop perl that lands on solaris. Them little bytes seem to work just
fine. ('cept for some pesky endian things between mac and solaris or is it
linux, I can never remember.) The combination of BBEdit and MacPerl (plus
the subtleties of MacOS) don't exist on the wintel platform. (I looked, I've
got a 95, a 98, and a 3.1 machine snaked through an omniview with my mac. I
ended up with homesite, pfe and activestate all thwarting me in production
workflow. And I practiced this "MSdos/Command Prompt This Dammit" for
months.)

For web production MacPerl/BBEdit is especially cool, because I can code,
test, check and deploy sometimes without ever touching the mouse. (gotta
admit the compaq mouse through the omniview, driving the mac, alarms
mac-savvy guests.) Bottom line is that my mac gives me a  workflow that is
unparalleled/unachievable on the wintelly side.

My question is: Is there any empirical data on Mac/Perl/Web workflow, or
must I rely on anecdotal murmurings? BTW, I welcome anecdotal murmurings if
that's all we got, but boyoboy would I love numbers. You know, 100 monkeys,
with macs would have hit the Illiad 6.3 times faster than using wintel. Or
something.

PS. Did I miss something? Look where Mathew is working. Cool. Congrats.

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