in reply to Perl doesn't get to compete.

update: I gladly scratch the following after reading Perl gets to compete after all:

whoa, what a disparaging statement:

too few professionals use it professionally

It's time you get it, folks. Real professionals don't consider using that whacky perl for serious things. You're all a bunch of gamers, kiddies, fools. </sarcasm>


But! as there has been such a note on the website, it remains to be said that it shows the organizers were in doubt, and imho they should have done a bit more of research about the perl state of web developing up front. And that statement is really easy to be ill-gotten.

-shmem

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