[pm-h] Python and Perl is Dead

[Julian Brown]

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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