Re: Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere

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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Peter Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:10:47 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0235220/perls-glory-days-
> are-behind-it-but-it-isnt-going-anywhere
> >
> > We know we suck at marketing, but is there anything we are going to do
> > about it?
>
> This is, basically, Jon Orwant's prophecy coming home to roost: "People
> are going to move on and do something else."  If Perl 6 was ready for
> prime time, it would be a different story.
>
> Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about configuration management
> frameworks like Chef, Puppet, and Saltstack.  Those are Python- and Ruby-
> based.  He asked whether there was anything in that family based on
> Perl.  After extensive searching, I was forced to conclude that there
> wasn't.  If there had been, we would have tried to make it work.  That
> sucked.  Not trying to blame anyone, and not trying to claim I have an
> answer.  Just generally disappointed.
>

Just to throw out there something I came across a while back:
(R)?ex - http://rexify.org/
Written in Perl and appears to be very similar to Ansible.

Jeremy
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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Peter Scott <span dir=3D"=
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:10:47 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:<br>
&gt; <a href=3D"http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0235220/perls=
-glory-days-" target=3D"_blank">http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/01/=
29/0235220/perls-glory-days-</a><br>
<div>are-behind-it-but-it-isnt-going-anywhere<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; We know we suck at marketing, but is there anything we are going to do=
<br>
&gt; about it?<br>
<br>
</div>This is, basically, Jon Orwant&#39;s prophecy coming home to roost: &=
quot;People<br>
are going to move on and do something else.&quot; =A0If Perl 6 was ready fo=
r<br>
prime time, it would be a different story.<br>
<br>
Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about configuration management<br>
frameworks like Chef, Puppet, and Saltstack. =A0Those are Python- and Ruby-=
<br>
based. =A0He asked whether there was anything in that family based on<br>
Perl. =A0After extensive searching, I was forced to conclude that there<br>
wasn&#39;t. =A0If there had been, we would have tried to make it work. =A0T=
hat<br>
sucked. =A0Not trying to blame anyone, and not trying to claim I have an<br=
>
answer. =A0Just generally disappointed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div=
>Just to throw out there something I came across a while back:=A0</div><div=
>(R)?ex -=A0<a href=3D"http://rexify.org/" target=3D"_blank">http://rexify.=
org/</a></div>

<div>Written in Perl and appears to be very similar to Ansible.</div><div><=
br></div><div>Jeremy</div><div><span style=3D"color:rgb(136,136,136)">--=A0=
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Texas Open Source Project -=A0<a href=3D"http://texos.org/" target=3D"_blan=
k">http://texos.org</a><br>YAPC::NA 2013 -=A0</font></i><a href=3D"http://w=
ww.yapcna.org/yn2013/"><i>http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/</i></a></p></font><=
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