Re: Future Perl development

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:11:03PM -0800, Marvin Humphrey
wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > But I'm aware from a friend that at financial
> >institutions, the financial risk or losses from not
having some  
> >software
> >running (in his area because it's not yet written)
can be around  
> >$1,000,000
> >per day. The stakes are high.
> 
> That's why Yahoo employs Rasmus Lerdorf (of PHP fame).
> 
> I talked with Lerdorf at last year's OSCON, and he said
that Yahoo  
> aggressively seeks to hire the developers of key open
software  
> tools.  According to him, if you want to sell Yahoo
software services  
> and you have an open source competitor, you're screwed
-- because  
> they'd much rather go with the open source solution and
hire the  
> principle devs.
> 
> Maybe y'all ought to break Perl once.  Then all of a
sudden, some  

Yes, it does work too damn well. I suspect that's part of
the "problem"
as to why no-one's volunteering to fix it.

> company will lose a million bucks and realize how
insane it is that  
> they didn't keep a core Perl programmer on staff as an
insurance policy.

eg Yahoo!

What's curious here is that Yahoo! use Perl a lot in the
backend.
Yet I'm unaware of anyone on this list who works for them. I
know a couple
of ex-Yahoo! people in bond who visible CPAN authors (and
one now has had
a module assimilated into core)

Nicholas Clark

On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> What's curious here is that Yahoo! use Perl a lot in
the backend.
> Yet I'm unaware of anyone on this list who works for
them. I know a  
> couple
> of ex-Yahoo! people in bond who visible CPAN authors
(and one now  
> has had
> a module assimilated into core)
Mike Schilli and I both work there - just a few feet away
from each  
other, actually. Mike is very very much involved in keeping
Perl  
working for Y!; I'm doing work with other developer tools
stuff. Our  
software install tools are all Perl.

And Rasmus is on the same floor, over on the other side of
the  
building. 

  --- Joe M.

>>>>> "Nicholas" == Nicholas Clark
<nickccl4.org> writes:

Nicholas> Yet I'm unaware of anyone on this list who
works for them.

I'm on this list, but I cannot confirm or deny the other
half of that
statement, officially.  However, consider the fact that I
replied to this
particular message. 

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