Perl not in favour at Yahoo ?

Dave Cross dave at dave.org.uk
Thu May 22 11:57:02 BST 2008


Quoting Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com>:

> 2008/5/22 Simon Wilcox <essuu at ourshack.com>:
>> http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/developer.html
>>
>> See the Language Centres at the bottom ?
>>
>> ENOPERL !
>>
>> Yet the perl page does exist:
>>
>> http://developer.yahoo.com/perl/
>>
>> But it doesn't appear in the left hand navigation either :-(
>>
>> Anyone know if this is an accidental omission or are we not fashionable
>> enough for them[1] ?
>
> Probably a bitter pythonista - I've noticed that a fair few of them
> will snub Perl whenever they list dynamic languages, etc as soom kind
> of petty vendetta because somebody once made them work on a perl cgi
> script that was older than them.

I usually find it easier to assume cock-up rather than conspiracy.

Complaining about the omission on a Perl mailing list is unlikely to  
be as effective at getting it fixed as emailing Yahoo pointing out the  
error.

Cheers,
(Pragmatic) Dave...


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