Re: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl.

Instructors, particularly College profs, don't have any real work to do, so they get bored easily. They often have short attention spans anyway.

I think that the real problem is that, without some real tasks to complete, the only thing keeping their minds entertained is learning new languages and/or techniques.

- cybear

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Re^2: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jun 15, 2006 at 10:25 UTC
Instructors, particularly College profs, don't have any real work to do, so they get bored easily. They often have short attention spans anyway. As somebody who used to work in a university I have a rather large urge to call bullshit on that statement :-)	[reply]
Re^3: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by cybear (Monk) on Jul 31, 2006 at 17:46 UTC
Seems that way on the ones that I'm familiar with. Most of them stopped being objective or effective when they began to get paid by a college, instead of needing to produce usable products in a competitive environment. This is certainly not true of all profs, but it does seem to be prevelant. - cybear	[reply]
Re^2: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by ptum (Priest) on Aug 01, 2006 at 14:57 UTC
While it is certainly true that some professors are timeservers, or that others have been sucked into the 'publish or perish' vortex, this seems a wildly unfair categorization. It has been some time since I was an undergraduate student, but I've been taking certificate classes lately, and I have often been deeply impressed by the passion and energy of the professors under whom I have studied. Sometimes things in the ivory tower are a little far-removed from the 'real' world, but I think you'll find that every niche has its blind spots. I certainly would prefer a professor who was interested in learning new languages and techniques over one who was stuck on what he or she learned 'back in the day'. No good deed goes unpunished. -- (attributed to) Oscar Wilde	[reply]