Re: Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 10:04:42 +0200
Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:

[snip]

> -> Web 2.0 -> HTML 5 anyone?). A lot of people have been criticising
> languages like C and C++ all the time with all sorts of criticisms,
> but both are popular among open-source developers, and still used in
> production a lot[C++] and often are the best choice. Perl has some
> advantages over Ruby or Python or JavaScript or CoffeeScript or

[snip]

This reminds me of one of my favorite programming language quotes:

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always
bitch about and those nobody uses." --- Bjarne Stroustrup

G. Wade
-- 
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
not worth knowing.                                       -- Alan Perlis