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Author Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old n
Wiggins d Anconia

2004-09-28, 4:00 pm

> I really like Perl, but lately everywhere I seem to go and talk to say I
> shouldn't be learning Perl as it's old and Python is better.
>


I'm impressed, come to the Midwest in the US, around here they have only
heard of M$ and Cobol. Ironically, Python is showing its age, just look
at Ruby. Of course Perl 6/Parrot stands to make all of the discussion moot.

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