in reply to Ego Boosts

The requested thoughts...

"proved themselves immune to the callow blandishments of visual basic" -- How does hanging out here do that? I use VB where I NEED IT! Just like Perl. Just because Perl gets used more doesn't mean I drop VB.

"have stood firm against the unholy Bill and all his minions" -- How so? I run half my code on ActiveState (Win2K) and the other half on FreeBSD

"have, most probably, embraced the penguin" -- Yeah right...how blind can you be. To assume that the only OS any Perl hacker would run would be Linux is assuming way to much. As stated before, even my Unix machines are not Linux, not that I have any issues with Linux, I just don't prefer it.

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I think you have missed one of the coolest things about Perl, that it does run on multiple platforms, that it is a tool that can be used in whatever environment you find yourself in, and that you can go to the communities and not have to watch out for the zealots that seem to think there is only one kernel in the world that has ever had smart people developing it. You find rather, people with open minds that understand that another person my have to run Windows, or may even WANT to run Windows! The point is here in the monastary, most don't care! Most only care about Perl, and it's MANY flavors/platforms/uses.
</rant>


"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!

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Re: Re: Ego Boosts
by CubicSpline (Friar) on Sep 25, 2001 at 23:31 UTC
    ++ ++ ++ ++ Rex

    While certainly it's nice to get something a little more out of your new status than just a larger hill to climb, there is no reason why any of us would want to alienate other users by proclaiming defiance of Microsoft products and Linux-loving rhetoric.

    I know you're just trying to be clever, and I applaud that. I think it'd be great if there was even just an automated announcement in the CB that such-n-such has now been ordained as a new status. join the monks in congratulating his/her efforts. Like Rex mentioned, PM is about Perl, and these other fringe issues are for CB discussions and flames, rather than broad-sweeping, site-wide proclamations.

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      Clever? I had hoped for amusing :P

      On a factual note, I was network administrator on a site that ran MS products from DOS 5 to win 2000 before moving completely into programming and 'cut my teeth' as it were on Activestate's superb port.

      That paragraph was just for padding and, perhaps, for a grin or two.... a shame it distracted many from the basic idea.

       

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