Re: On achieving goals (enterprise acceptance/coding guidelines)

Hiya,

On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 11:59 PM, James Tillman wrote:

> Any manager who would make the simple use of StudlyCase and get/set a
> prerequisite for acceptance doesn't have enough managerial skills to 
> make me
> care whether he uses Perl or not.  He'll just switch to C# later on, 
> anyway,
> when he inevitably gets borg'ed by Microsoft.  A good manager will be 
> more
> interested in consistent coding style and design.

So, who was it who said that (technology) managers in the enterprise 
world are good?

My personal experience has been that:

a) enterprise-type of people think perl is a hacker's language that is 
line-noise, totally unmaintainable and totally unsuited for large 
projects with enterprise requirements;
b) enterprise-type of people think positive about perl code when it is 
not line-noise, when it shows good use of OO/patters and when it is 
actually being used in a large project (it probably reminded them of 
*good* java code for all I know).

Bas.