I know exactly how you feel.  I just had the crap knocked out of two years of Perl and mySQL development by a passing whim from higher up. See this panic posting pleading for advice to stop an ASP.net and C# wave.  It started and succeeded in less than a month.  I argued against it and as a result I seem to be on the fast track out the door.  I will be surprised if I still have this job come September.

I don't think that this is an epidemic, though.  I just think that the logic and merits of Perl can't always stack up against the marketing arm of Microsoft.  All it takes is a programmer who likes MS languages to tell an executive that MS is the way to go and he forgets years of logic a Perl programmer presented him, not to mention a proven track record and the free price of Perl.  Of course, you're talking about Java, but the argument is still valid.

Maybe what we need to do is start a marketing effort for Perl to combat MS programming languages and Java.  Linux has done quite well because of the direct comparison the public and the press sees between Linux and MS Windows.  But when it comes to comparing one programming language to another, who cares besides us?  Perhaps the thing to do is to talk Perl up in a more focused way and get the public to see the difference--if that's even possible.  Perhaps we should write newspapers and magazines, go after publicity and other such things to build a more informed business public.  How one would do that, I'm not sure, but I would love to hear other people's ideas and to participate in such an effort.

-Spenser

That's Spenser, with an "s" like the detective.

In reply to Re: Perl falls victim to shifting trends by Spenser
in thread Perl falls victim to shifting trends by vladb

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