At 10.57 -0500 2000.05.26, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:

I don't even use Unix on my PowerBook. I get razzed about using Mac OS, until they see I know what the heck I am doing and can do whatever I need to do in it, except for those things I need to do in Unix, in which case I use Unix (from Mac OS).

Same thing goes for Perl. I ignore their jeers if I must, and just go about my work. I am sure pretty much everyone here has, plenty of times, been told "you can do that in Perl?" or "wow, that's really cool! I need to learn Perl one of these days" from people who had professed a dislike of Perl without really knowing much about it. That's the way it goes. I don't worry about it unless the person on the other side tells me I can't use Perl or Mac OS or whatever it is, or if that person is spreading FUD about them. That's when we have a problem. :-)

See, this is where I part company with my company. When my boss is so closed-minded as to think negatively about a technology he does not know, even when faced with evidence to the contrary of what he thinks he knows, and makes policy decisions based on those misconceptions that he has been given every opportunity to fix, well, that's not the kind of person I want telling me what to do, even if it doesn't get in my way at the moment.

Eh. It doesn't bother me. Just look at the numbers. Perl is used all over the place. If some company, however big they are, doesn't want to use it, that's their problem.

See, I look at this a little differently from others. Perl is HUGE in its acceptance and use in this world of ours. Would I like it to be bigger? Sure. but I am not worried about people not accepting it, because by and large they do. And those that don't will all die a horrible, painful death when WE RULE THE WORLD. *ahem*