What Microsoft thinks of Perl

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Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by etcshadow (Priest) on Nov 06, 2003 at 19:30 UTC
Personally, I just love that they have: `if ($Conn eq undef) { $val = 'undef'; } else { $val = $Conn; }` [download] in their example. So sad. But so funny. But so sad. ------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by RMGir (Prior) on Nov 06, 2003 at 10:32 UTC
January 22, 1999 That probably makes it more "What MS thought of perl" :) Still, it's an interesting article, thanks. Mike	[reply]
Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by ellem (Hermit) on Nov 06, 2003 at 20:56 UTC
I hate to be a KILLJOY but that article is from 1999! Considering the state of Windows Scripting in 1999 it's not surprising they were high on Perl. -- ellem@optonline.net There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.	[reply]
Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by mcogan1966 (Monk) on Nov 06, 2003 at 20:19 UTC
Nice to know M$ approves of Perl. Not like those of us who use Perl are going to stop just because M$ decides they don't approve. But the end does give me a good idea on their real opinion, "go ahead and use Perl, if you must, but our products are so much better because we support them." Personally, I'd tell someone to use Perl over VB and VB script any day. M$ may support VB, but the entire programming community supports Perl. My money is with the rest of the programmers.	[reply]
Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by Art_XIV (Hermit) on Nov 07, 2003 at 14:17 UTC
This is old news but it may be new to rupzperl. I have used Perl for as the scripting language for several pre-.NET ASP intranets, dozens of Windows Script Components, and several generators for VB/MTS/COM+ work. Yes, I will confess to having worked with VB. :( Perl always served brilliantly in these roles. VB, VBScript, and JScript were often too anemic for many jobs. Writing Perl for Windows tasks seemed ticklishly subversive, too. When the referenced article came out I was happy to see that there were developers at Microsoft (not necessarily MS itself) who were giving Perl its just due. Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"	[reply]
Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by pboin (Deacon) on Nov 07, 2003 at 13:37 UTC
In the last question, "Should I use Perl instead of VBScript?", check out the last sentence: "If you are a Perl developer already, then I think you already know the answer." Now, call me a conspiracy nut, but the way I read it, the author is intentially vague, and this is written tounge-in-cheek. I think there is a very real possibility that this fella works for MS, but if you asked him off-site, he might prefer perl. Re-read the end, and see if you don't agree.	[reply]
Re: What Microsoft thinks of Perl by Ninthwave (Chaplain) on Nov 07, 2003 at 12:09 UTC
Still it is a good article to email the PHB to get them to ease up on your use of software that doesn't seem to meet their technology strategy. Even if it does most of the work. "No matter where you go, there you are." BB	[reply]