[xorcist]

They may come and go in the small bubble of blogs you read, but the real world works very differently.

Heck, I work with Perl on a regular basis. Not for some amateur web pages but for real, important, back end stuff. What matters is that the code is solid, not how many new blogs are started on the subject.

Remember that the ones who get things done in the world does not blog about it. No blogs chronicled how they chose dynamic frameworks for the first version of Google. Because they didn't. They whipped out their editor and compiler and went to work.

[agentultra]

> Remember that the ones who get things done in the world does not blog about it.

Perhaps not necessarily true. I don't blog as often as I used to but I still get things done. The act of writing helps to strengthen and reinforce good ideas and train one to recognize them in the future. Publicly or privately matters little... but some of us do "blog."

[sanderjd]

I think your parent's language was a bit inflammatory, but I like the reminder that not everybody doing interesting things is blogging and tweeting about it. Lots of people just work.