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About points #1 and #3 (Score:1)
I'd never thought of applying the theory to programming languages. But it fits. Some of the pressures documented in The Innovator's Solution to pay close attention to existing customers apply in the case of Perl as well if you interpret them just right. The pricing part is not quite as good a fit, but it is close.
However I've long said, if you want to improve the visibility of
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If Perl is going to compete with PHP, then its time for me to switch to Ruby.
See also Idiocracy [imdb.com].
Re:About points #1 and #3 (Score:1)
As an IT manager, you can buy a big huge manly server and hire a man-sized staff of dozens of barely-competent monkeys to write programs in it and look like a big man in front of your other big manly peers.
(Don't blame me; Sun's marketing department uses libidinous phrases such as "opening the kimono".)
Don't discount the value of being able to reach a level of success despite having to hire an army of barely-competent monkeys to write software for you.
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