This is actually something that jcwren has been saying constantly. "You don't write device drivers in Perl!", type of thing.

Personally I received quite a few -- on my defense of COBOL. But I didn't do that for reputation. (I don't actually do anything for rep. I'm just trying to be a helpful community member!). I had just a different view.

But mentioning another scripting language in the chatterbox usually is replied with "/ban heretic" or something.

What I heard... It seems that PM is much more friendlier than comp.lang.misc.perl ... Writing a message about python usually ends up with a big fire.

And this I believe that the reputation system helps on. Removing messages that aren't on subject and insulting. So it is both a blessing and a curse...

JanneVee

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