I don't know the cure but understanding the reason might help.

A) open source lives from contribution and bad mouthing the competition helps lifting the own chances.

B) most people want to be on the winners side. The more insecure they are about their own skills the more inclined to mob others°. They might say they are Pythonistas, but an average Perl programmer will beat most of them in Python.

Trouble is the self fulfilling prophecy happening here.

I don't have a recipe for you.

Personally I'd come with a use Perl or die; t-shirt to work and demostrate Perl fun each day. :)

Cheers Rolf
(proud member of the PEK - Perl-Emacs-Kraut - community)

°) "True I beat my wife but hey my neighbor is even worse and always screams at his kids ..."

In reply to Re: Perl Contempt in My Workplace by LanX
in thread Perl Contempt in My Workplace by rje

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