Interesting post to the london.pm list, following London Web Frameworks Night. It addresses the image problem Perl has, and the marketing it needs to do. In short, Perl itself is fine, and it has some a few advantages (eg CPAN, DBI) to Ruby/Python, but it sure needs to sell itself better. [As spooled earlier today.]
Django/Rails meetup
05 September 2005
I’m hoping to be at the Django and Rails meetup for a few hours tonight. I’ve begun working in Rails on something, well, moderately big and moderately complicated, but I’ve been greatly enjoying the experience. If you’re there too, do say hi; it’d be good to chat. You might even be able to help me with my login controller…