in reply to Why Perl?

If you're attempting to get people to move to perl away from what they use now, that may not go over very well.

What I would suggest is to stress that you're giving them a taste of another tool that is available to them and I suspect it will go over better, and you might come away with one or two people to actually want to try it out; that's better than the n people who will resist if you try to force it on them (where n is the number of people in your group).

If you get 1 or 2 who have success in the short term, that may prompt others to take a closer look, but I suspect your AWK guy is probably not ever going to be persuaded.

-Scott

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Re^2: Why Perl?
by Preceptor (Deacon) on Jul 17, 2013 at 16:49 UTC

    I've got a mix - some who don't know scripting at all, some who've 'done a bit of shell' and a few others that have done some amazing hacky monstrosities in shell. (which works, but only as long as no one sneezes anywhere near). I'm not trying to convert them - not entirely - more give them an opportunity to learn something that might be useful. I think there's definite advantages to a fairly standard approach, but failing that at least _some_ mutual understanding is useful/necessary. (And I'm not planning on stopping with Perl, just because someone else has only seen VBS).

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