It is true that many events get blown out of all proportion. And this would be just one of those. I also appreciate your facetious tag, nice to see some levity here fomr time to time.

Perl just isn't sexy right now - so what are we gonna do? Proably not a lot we can do. Most of the things that folk pop up and say "we should do" or "we should have" are already done, often first, by the Perl community at large. Languages like PHP have a place, but I am convinced that "in my shop" isn't one of them. Maybe it is the people, but every time I have gotten involved in something with PHP, usually because somebody around here finds a contractor with a 'cloned' version of something that appears to be immediately useful. However EVERY single projetc involving PHP has turned into something of a nightmare. The coders don't seem to understand the MVC paradigm or re-usability. So we have found sometimes five or six chunks of code that display exactly the same thing. However this is a fault of the coders and how they are taught (or not) rather than the language itself. But I digress.

Despite the circumstances in which this developer finds himself, I am sure the PHP effort and the Zend effort will continue, but one day something will come along and take the shine off PHP, maybe it will be the PHP/Parrot implementation that Rasmus Lerdorf was msuing about a few years ago and PHP will come home again, right back where it started.

jdtoronto