That aside, of course at all levels and scales. But! One reason to whack perl has been the TIMTOWTDIness at low level IMHO, which is why I said "not so much". People that like to bash perl (pun intended) often pick such examples of TIMTOWTDIness that are slightly silly if isolated out of context (but there's more about expressiveness of a language than the pronounciation of "a" in its various dialects (in fact, even in a single dialect, there are many meanings; I can think of at least nine different of "a" in the dialect spoken here in south-west germany (but that varies even from town to town))) - and they tend to stay nitpicking there.

"Okay", I say, "fact is, you can speak, as your tongue is grown. Let's look at the bigger picture."

Then they skip the level I've spoken of in my previous post, and begin with "enterprise readiness", "industrial standards", "SLAs", "wholesale support" and that crap... *sigh*. I'll better stop here.

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On His TimToadyness commenting - you've done a good job to warrant that, sticking a key word in the title... ;-)

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