[pm-h] Python and Perl is Dead

[Zakariyya Mughal]

On 2014-09-17 at 12:32:10 -0500, B. Estrade via Houston wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Julian Brown via Houston
> <houston at pm.org> wrote:
> > Everyone says Perl is dead.  I have been working in Perl for 11 years, I
> > don't think it is dead.
> >
> 
> The feelings of immortality that one derives from running Perl-based
> services on top of FreeBSD is worth the abuse.

Immortality or omnipotence?

:-P

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal


> 
> Brett
> 
> > Julian
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I talked to my nephew today.  He will graduate from
> >> a tech school in Computer Science, or some similar
> >> degree related to computer software.
> >>
> >> I asked him what software languages he uses.  Java,
> >> C Sharp, something else, and believe it or not
> >> Cobol and AS400 (for govt work).  I said what about
> >> Python.  Oh, that's pretty much dead he says.  I said
> >> "and of course Perl is dead, right?"  Yeah, he says,
> >> nobody uses Perl, except you.
> >>
> >> Yeah, OK.  Sure.
> >>
> >> I asked him what he would recommend for somebody if
> >> they don't use Java.  He says "C Sharp, I guess".
> >> I asked him about Go.  He had never heard of it!
> >>
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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