Re^2: The audience

The audience is expected to be IT managers, people whom are mostly see Perl stereo-typed. They probably have never heard of most of the other languages, maybe only PHP and about Perl they have misconceptions (shell replacement language))

Actually Zeev Suraski of Zend will talk about an hour after me, so they will hear about PHP a lot.

I think your questions were really in place, so what are the answeres ?

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Re^3: The audience
by xorl (Deacon) on Dec 20, 2004 at 15:03 UTC

I'll probably get downvoted for this, but even after many years of using Perl, I still think of it as a shell replacement language. Heck in the interview for the job I have now, I even said I don't bother with bash scripting, I just use perl.

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Re^4: The audience

by Jenda (Abbot) on Dec 20, 2004 at 15:46 UTC

The issue is not whether Perl is ALSO a shell replacement language. The issue is that some people think it's JUST a shell replacement language.

Jenda
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
-- P. Simon in Mrs. Robinson

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Re^4: The audience

by hakkr (Chaplain) on Dec 21, 2004 at 12:58 UTC

And I DO see the end of Java and C#, and NET except for the corporate fools who will hang on to it, because they "invested their life's training" into it.

First of all many corporate fools use and also hang onto Perl. Perl is not just the domain of the hobbyist.

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