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Why do designers fail to adopt Perl?
I had my first article published on Andy Lester’s Perl Buzz blog. It was driven by a year of trying to digest gallons of nasty-tasting PHP/HTML soup, getting not very far despite more than a few years fiddling around with Perl, Python and Ruby, my friend Ben’s Perl evangelism, and watching web designers ‘default’ to mangled PHP without thinking. It might almost have been called ‘use Django instead’, except that’s not the point I’m trying to make.
