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Perrin is a contributor to various Perl-related projects like mod_perl, Template Toolkit, and Class::DBI. He is a frequent speaker at OSCON, YAPC, and ApacheCon, and a contributor to several perl-related books.
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Perrin is a contributor to various Perl-related projects like mod_perl, Template Toolkit, and Class::DBI. He is a frequent speaker at OSCON, YAPC, and ApacheCon, and a contributor to several perl-related books.
Friday September 01, 2006
03:22 PM
Are we done with Joel Spolsky now?
I've never been a fan of Joel's writing, but he kind of clinched the deal with this one. To quote:
...the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful, an infinity of platforms where you're pretty much guaranteed to fail spectacularly when it's too late to change anything (Lisp, ISAPI DLLs written in C, Perl)...
I just hope I can fail as spectacularly as Amazon, Yahoo, and TicketMaster have with their use of Perl.
And incidentally, eBay was originally an ISAPI DLL.
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Fini! (Score:1)
Pop culture references are fun! (Score:1)
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He has a couple of turkey ideas (Score:2)
I know Joel's bias when it comes to choosing technology, but ignoring that stuff, I think he has a better signal-to-noise ratio than most people. Although stated poorly in this essay, his central message is that people matter more than the choice of technology.
I was more concerned about his essay talking about anonymous functions [joelonsoftware.com] as if it
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Yeah, I am inching towards that conclusion about him as well.