Wow, I didn't expect to raise that much interest on this topic... Thanks all for your help!

One fact you maybe missed is that the presentation is not really geared towards "forcing" them to use Perl; it is just meant to show them *how* this stuff works, _not_ why it's better than some of what they actually do ;-)

I guess I'll just take a mixed approach, probably introducing general concepts about CGI, CPAN and modules, and also giving them some stuff to read (maybe before actually giving the speech, i.e. XML-RPC, MySQL information, maybe also some perldocs). However, if I happened to get negative feedback, I could get to establish comparisions to VB using your advice. I agree that it could be dangerous, but still, if Perl is good at things that VB isn't at. they should face it: that's just the way it is. (and viceversa -GUI generation in Perl (using Glade) was rather a headache, as some of you pointed out ;P)

Oh well, nobody said this world had to be fair for anyone ;-)

Apart from that, I didn't really mean to relate so directly Perl to VB, just find analogies that could let them understand better why I used it as well as some of the stuff it can actually do.

Anyway, I'll take all of this info into account. Again, thanks a bunch!! :-))

In reply to Re: Re: Explaining a Perl project to a VB-bound audience by Lasker
in thread Explaining a Perl project to a VB-bound audience by Lasker

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