Re: CMS Review: Bricolage on the Nautis Project

On Aug 22, 2007, at 08:16, Scott Lanning wrote:

>> "Delivery options that WCMS owners have come
to take for granted  
>> such as
>> blogs, wikis, and FAQ tools are missing from
Bricolage."
>
> Is this not true?

It depends on your definition of the term
"missing." 

>> "For all of its strengths, perl seems to be
going the way of the  
>> dinosaur."
>
> Very debateable. In fact in the last few weeks, there
have been
> arguments about this on use.perl, and I tend to agree
that Perl
> seems much less popular than before.

It has less buzz than, say, Ruby, but still has millions of 

developers and many many CPAN uploads every day.

> On the other hand, people will argue that Perl is
continuing
> along very strongly, just it doesn't get much
attention.
> I don't know... I mean, look at David - he got a Ruby
job.

Yep.

Best,

David

>> "For all of its strengths, perl seems to be
going the way of the  
>> dinosaur."
>
> Very debateable. In fact in the last few weeks, there
have been
> arguments about this on use.perl, and I tend to agree
that Perl
> seems much less popular than before.

>It has less buzz than, say, Ruby, but still has millions
of  
>developers and many many CPAN uploads every day.

I believe it was in Floss Weekly Episode 9, an interview
with Randal Schwartz, where he threw out a mind-blowing
statistic... that a significant proportion of web sites...
something like 50%, but don't remember exactly... are
powered by Perl.  For all its syntactical idiosyncrasies,
Perl is far from extinct.  Personally, it's not my idea of
an "ideal" programming language, but in many
cases, it's the right language for the job.