I said "dying", in the same context (although not to the same extreme) that COBOL is a dying language. I agree with your position, Shlomi. Thanks.
Dov Levenglick דוב לוונגליק http://dov-levenglick.com/ On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:51:13 +0200 > Dov Levenglick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am not venting nor am I an outside observer. For my own scripting uses > I > > use perl - it's what I like using and what I feel competent in. I also > used > > to teach courses in perl. > > The question wasn't an emotional one in which I was calling for people to > > declare their loyalty to perl; it was a factual one. > > Well, I think asking if "Perl is a dying language?" is an emotional > question > rather than a factual question because "dying" is something that is based > on > feelings rather than on facts, and is hard to discern concerning all the > available data (some of which is hard to collect). > > In any case, I still use a lot of Perl because it's the language I'm most > comfortable with and because I find it has some clear advantages over > similar > languages. However, I don’t restrict myself to Perl and have been looking > at, or > found employment with, other languages and technologies, including Python. > I > really dislike tribalist attitude of "us against all the rest", and we > should > always look at the more global picture and what benefits man-kind in the > long > run. Also see: > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=larry-wall-all-truth-is-gods-truh > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy parody) - http://shlom.in/selina > > <rindolf> I am not solvable. I am Turing hard. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >
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