[pm-h] Python and Perl is Dead

[Lanny Ripple]

It's as dead as COBOL (which oddly OP-subject, just graduated with a
degree, knows).  Very few languages truly die as long as there is a working
compiler/runtime and a codebase to maintain.

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.
>
> 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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