[pm-h] Python and Perl is Dead

[Julian Brown]

Powershell is something Microsoft came up with in the last 5-8 years.
Bash has been around for what 20?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org>
wrote:

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> On 9/16/2014 1:02 AM, Zakariyya Mughal via Houston wrote:
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>> Heheh, I'm still in university and I'm showing people Perl tricks that
>> blow their minds. People these days just don't use dynamic languages to
>> their full capability. They just learn the basics and stop. :-P
>>
>> I just went to Houston Techfest[*] this weekend (as I have for a number
>> of years now) and I'm mostly seeing C# and JavaScript. There used to be
>> a larger Java presence and even some Ruby, but that has seemed to waned.
>> I'm wondering, would anyone want to present some Perl there next year? I
>> think I may have got someone interested in looking at DBIx::Class.
>>
>> Also, have any of you checked out PowerShell? It's got a very terse
>> syntax. I may have to steal some of it for Perl.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Zaki Mughal
>>
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> I didn't know I had PowerShell on this Win7 machine
> of mine.  I'm watching tutorial 1 of 5 right now.  This
> guy sure gets excited about things that don't seem all
> that cool to me, but it sure is cool to him.  He is easily
> impressed.
>
> I guess this PowerShell is a little bit better than the
> command prompt I am using now, but not much better in
> my opinion.  I really need to find a better one.
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> Mike
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