This is you, isn't it?

• I've installed mod_perl on OS X when it wasn't there. The deep shortcomings of some of Apple's developer kit were clear then. They have improved but as recently as a year ago still had real problems and UI blockers for things that are trivial to build on Linux like SDL. The speech synth module can apparently jam up an OS X machine completely right now.
• DuckDuckGo is great. I have a high paying Perl job already though and have had nothing else for 15 years straight.
• Booking.com is fabulous. I use it and would absolutely consider working there if conditions warranted. I have worked in Perl in the NL, UK, and DE.
• I did a nickel at Amazon when most of the backend tools were Perl—I wrote a few of them—and the site templating system still was an in house flavor of it. The backend was exactly the monolithic monster I've been cautioning against and it had seized up development and expansion almost completely. It was extremely painful and expensive to escape it. The same thing happened to the big toys site of the day with their Perl backend. Apache and mod_perl were not enough for them the first Christmas their site saw real traffic because the architecture was antiquated. That was like 1999 or 2000 when the Internet was a comparative ghost town.
• MediaWiki was indeed prototyped in Perl. It was abandoned quickly because the performance was too awful. Again reinforcing everything I've been saying.
• I have a serious distaste for Python and Microsoft and Oracle and plenty others. I generally keep it to myself because it's more professional. Your repeated revisiting of conspiracy theories bespeaks an inconsistent adherence to the directions on the prescription label.
• I have taught Perl at various places. I have taught kids Perl on a Mac. I'm fixing to drop $5-6K on a new Mac this week that will sit next to the IIsi that still runs. I'm not all talk.

It's probably clear to everyone, you got my goat. You took an interesting idea and valid complaint and shoveled a short ton of vaca caca on top. Why in the world would anyone want to work with or take cues from some nameless, error tossing screed factory with your attitude, biases, and practices from the 1990s? Whatever the next big thing will be, it will have no relation to you.

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