Re: Perl Dress Code

In article <[email protected]>, Peter Scott
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Based upon http://xrl.us/kmqa , perhaps it's time we established a dress
> code for us in public.  What should the well-dressed Perl hacker wear? 
> Camel-hair suit, perhaps?

The article starts off with the tantalizing "sandals and ponytail set"
comments, but that's a red herring. The heart of the article is a real
inability of techies  to think outside of tech. I've seen this same
situation many times while consulting:

<quote>
"I blame the IT community, I blame the IT leadership, over and over and
over again, about their inability to articulate correctly the business
opportunity that we've got here," Quinn said. 

(I blame [the IT department]) for not understanding what it is that
they do, for spending too much time talking and thinking in technology
terms, and not thinking in terms of business," he said. 
</quote>