>> I think this "Perl is Dead" meme is way overblown
> then why write the first paragraph at all
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"They" don't exist. There is no "us" and "them". There's only us.
Some of us prefer other languages, and there's no harm in that. If "they" win, then "we" don't lose.
There is no war against the Perl community, and there never was one.
Neither Perl nor the Perl community will die if we don't fight.
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I get what you’re saying and I think the anonymonk’s paranoia above is silly. There is, however, a lot of baseless yet cohesive hatred for Perl and no one, really nearly no one, would choose Java if they were 100% free to decide and knew the alternatives and yet… Corporate agendas can and do frame the landscape, else WIN would not be ubiquitous for example.
I think what a lot of VCs are looking for, at least unconsciously, is the next Microsoft. And of course if Microsoft is your model, you shouldn't be looking for companies that hope to win by writing great software. But VCs are mistaken to look for the next Microsoft, because no startup can be the next Microsoft unless some other company is prepared to bend over at just the right moment and be the next IBM. –Great Hackers
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> "They" don't exist.
"There" is nonetheless a need for easy answers.
And "Many" like mobbing others, to badmouth others brings a quick return of "investment".
That's (unfortunately) human.
Investing in specialized IT-know-how is a risky business, if the mainstream moves on to other shores.
And fear to lose is a strong impulse to repeat unfunded claims.
I did it myself in the past with PHP without ever really using it, not sure if I'm immune to do it again.
( And I experienced it countless times on other fields, like racists chauvinists pointing at Germany to prove their own "tolerance". (At least we never... ) Or illiterate people trying to educate Arabic academics. Or rude tourists openly complaining about Asian
culture. )
There might be no "They" conspiracy, but nonetheless a mob spreading FUD and cheering whenever someone makes a derisive joke.
IMHO its fascinating to observe that the less Pythonistas understand their own language (iterators wtf???) the more they "hate" Perl.
Tribal psychology if you want.
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