"I think you are stoooooopid; here's a 5Mb binary..."

The issue isn't intelligence, it's how much time administrators have available to wrestle with an installation process when they're busy doing fifty billion other things. Make the installation extremely simple (and reversible) and you increase the chances that someone will actually install and use the program. Greatly. Make it difficult to install, and you increase the chances that someone along the chain of command will decide that isn't worth the hassle.

If the customer can install it without caring that it's written in Perl, it certainly isn't going to increase the popularity of Perl - because the customer doesn't even know Perl is being used.

By this logic, C and C++ must be really, really unpopular. No customer installing an application written in those languages knows that C/C++ is being used, after all...

The ability to deliver atomic, easily-installed apps would increase the popularity of Perl among the people who write the apps, not the people who use them. If a developer with the freedom to do so is picking an implementation language for an app, and one language requires delivering a bundle of modules and maybe getting the installer to do some other hand-waving, and the other language has an easy, ready-made way to shrinkwrap and deliver the app, that fact could very well sway her away from Perl if the other (dis-)advantages of the respective languages balance each other out.

In reply to Re: Re: The Future - Shipping Applications Written in Perl by knight
in thread The Future - Shipping Applications Written in Perl by John M. Dlugosz

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