You could try sharing with him some real-corporate-world Perl
success stories. There is an article at oreilly.com about
UniCredito
Italiano, an Italian Bank that is using Perl. You could
also check out O'Reilly's
Perl success stories, which contains more of those.
That said, be aware that liking Perl is not the same
as liking Linux. I love Perl, but I consider Linux to be just
another version of Unix. I routinely use Solaris, Linux, NEXTSTEP,
OpenBSD and MacOS, and use Perl under all of those. Maybe
J'oe is one of those who immediately associate Perl with Linux,
and because he doesn't like Linux (for whatever reason), he
extends the dislike to Perl. Show him that Perl can be useful
under almost any other platform, and maybe he will see it with
new eyes.
--ZZamboni
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