Perl people tend to develop a stronger attachement to Perl than others to their language of choice

This is an extremely dangerous thing. At first it appears great for Perl - more people attached to it, more people using it, more publicity, great. However, this leads to programmers who have only one tool and get tunnel vision. They lose objectivity and innovation is greatly reduced. You end up with people trying to do silly things that were never meant for Perl. Perl is adapted to try and make these things semi-possible, and it loses its strengths and becomes so overly broad that it is surpassed in almost every area. People keep using it only because they sort of still know how to use and it is (barely) okay for the job, but there are many better alternatives.

I should note this is not the current situation, just a future scenario based on the current path. Hopefully a major change, such as Parrot and Perl 6 will take us down a different direction. I firmly believe better integration with other languages is the solution to this problem.

No community can ever be healthy if it doesn't continuously question itself - and that's something every community fails to do sufficiently

Well said, and as one may guess from my previous post, I don't think that the Perl community is very open to constructive criticism. It seems to deal with it in a "Flame. That's not the Perl way. Ignore" type attitude. As always, there are exceptions (such as yourself judging from your reply) but those exceptions aren't an accurate representation of the masses.

I think CPAN is also an important part of the equation, it does lead to many mostly non-programmers being able to throw together solutions. This has its good and bad points. The good being greater access to programming, which helps improve a huge number of important skills. The bad being that if you're just throwing together solutions, you don't really learn that much and you risk doing something stupid. It does provide a decent gateway to programming though.

In reply to Re: Re^5: GoodBye :-) by Anonymous Monk
in thread GoodBye :-) by mt2k

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