Perl Advocacy

[Nic Gibson]

On 2/27/08, Aaron Crane <perl at aaroncrane.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Nic Gibson writes:
> > On 2/27/08, Mike Whitaker <mike at altrion.org> wrote:
> > > On 27 Feb 2008, at 15:37, asmith9983 at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > If MS succeed in buying Yahoo then as I assume you work on Perl
> > > > code, MS can be listed as a Perl user.
> > >
> > > Assuming, of course, they aren't already :)
> >
> > Several years ago I spoke to the guy who ran MS scripting technologies
> > team.  He told me that NT/2K kernel builds were run by a very large
> > perl script.  So...
>
>
> That fits with what I've previously learnt from other sources (though
> that was about the Windows XP and Office XP build systems).
>
> For that matter, I know for a fact that there are at least two people
> on this list who've taught Perl to groups of Microsoft employees.


At least three then.
I've taught it to individual MS employees at Learning Tree.

nic

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