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It isn't cool and it doesn't care.

Why not care? Why shouldn't a language care about its image? Can't Perl be cool and get the job done? How about book titles like:

Perl for E-commerce

3D Graphic Programming with OpenGL, Renderman, and Perl.

Game programming with Perl

Mod_perl is tremendous tool for large e-commerce sites. But oh no, we have to have book titles like Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, or the Mod_Perl Cookbook. Do you see what I mean?

Ultimately, my point goes beyond image. My point is that obvious uses for Perl are not being marketed to the masses. And that's such a shame.

In reply to Re: Re: The Black Art of Perl Programming? by Anonymous Monk
in thread The Black Art of Perl Programming? by Anonymous Monk

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