Too complex compared to PHP. Code overly obtuse.
I guess someone thinks the automaticaly defined variables from querystring and post and the automatic quoting of strings are good ideas.
There’s no point in having something built by an individual or small team, to find that 2-3 years down the line the original team are nowhere to be found and the system requires major re-working/upgrading etc. and there’s only a tiny handful of “experts” available to take over (at somewhat large expense).
So why not have a large expense (and enough subordinates that I can get a raise) from the very beginning. OTOH, it's true that we do not get as many newbies as we used to. Which on one side gives us more time to get on with things and on the other causes the managers to wonder whether there will be enough perlers to take over a project in a few years. We are loosing to the marketing power of big companies and the hype of "newest and greatest" Ruby on Rails (what happens when a train finaly comes?).
My personal reason for choosing Ruby every time is that It Makes Writing Really Good Code Really Good Fun. Or as Why so poignantly put it “You’ll be writing such beautiful code it’ll make you cry”.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. I don't think I could survive enough beer to like Ruby.
I don’t see Perl as being big in the web-framework world. It is just not on the Radar.
Marketing, marketing, marketing. We are doing something wrong.
In reply to Re: Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge
by Jenda
in thread Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge
by tim.bunce
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