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08.20.08
Perl Fighting Fuddy-Duddy Image
 By
Doug Caverly
The law won't allow corporations to discriminate against people due to their age.
Programming languages aren't protected by any statutes, though, and it seems that Perl's maturity is sometimes being characterized as a bad thing.
Dave Cross recently wrote about an unnamed company in which "[m]anagement have started to refer to Perl-based systems as 'legacy' and to generally disparage it. This attitude has seeped through to non-technical business users who have started to worry if developers mention a system that is written in Perl. Business users, of course, don't want nasty old, broken Perl code. They want the shiny new technologies."
Cross then continued, "And so, in a matter of months, the technical managers at this company have create a business environment where Perl is seen as the cause of most of the problems with the current systems. It's an impressive piece of social engineering."
But Perl programmers can always point to the learning process and refinement that's taken place over time as positive things.
Perhaps classic cars - or better yet, Windows Vista - can also be mentioned as arguments against implementing whatever happens to have been released lately.
A long discussion on Slashdot (which is itself written in Perl) provides more insight into Perl's many good points.
If ageism is starting to affect Perl where you work, these may be good things to print out and pass around.
About
the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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