That was really great, thanks for sharing it. I loved the bit about which language was which metaphorical spanner.

One of the points, though, was "Many cheap hosting packages don’t work well out of the box with perl." I'd noticed this in the past, and never really thought about it. Why is this true? Is it worries that Perl, if misused by a novice, will do more damage than PHP misused by a novice? Perceived slowness of Perl? Maybe the Perl name doesn't sell hosting space, your survey seemed to indicate that web dev people aren't thinking of Perl as an option. The only other thing I can think of is that Perl is like the book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, only really more like "If you give a Perl person module X, they'll want module Y to go with it."

Pair.com, who I discovered via PerlMonks, seems to be both operating well and offering a crapload of Perl. Maybe it is because they cater to the audience here, which tend not to be novices?

Sorry to ramble a bit there, it just sparked my curiosity. Again, that was a neat survey, and thanks for sharing the results.

In reply to Re: Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge by amarquis
in thread Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge by tim.bunce

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