You’re not quite right on a few of those points… perhaps just because of the hyperbole but still.

I’m going to cite some stuff I wrote here lately on the points: Re^2: The future of Perl?, Re: Perl Success Stories; about money and jobs.

Apple did not do that and look where they are

You’re boostering for the opposite of what Apple did. Apple refused to compete on M$FT’s or IBM’s terms and hunkered down happily with a 6% market share. When pressed about what a failure Apple was, because y’all might not remember but everyone was calling them a failure for a long time, Jobs said: Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes? Perlmonks being a Fiat notwithstanding, refusing to compete on someone else’s terms or chase someone else’s game is the same. Perlmonks has *already* outlasted most of the Internet.

In reply to Re^9: Perl Monks monastery vs the Vatican by Your Mother
in thread Perl Monks monastery vs the Vatican by Steve_BZ

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