Stevan Little's talk "Perl is not dead, it is a deadend"<https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-is-not-dead-it-is-a-dead-end>and his recent follow on Perl - The Detroit of Scripting Languages<https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-the-detroit-of-scripting-languages> are apropos.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:06 AM, john saylor <[email protected]> wrote: > BEGIN {} > > On 7/22/13 19:14 , Bill Ricker wrote: > >> http://anonymoushash.**vmbrasseur.com/2013/07/22/the-** >> rising-costs-of-aging-perlers-**part-1-the-data/<http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2013/07/22/the-rising-costs-of-aging-perlers-part-1-the-data/> >> > > this was good and interesting. not earthshaking but nicely done. > > in the sweep of history [as i know it], i view perl as a stepping stone on > the way to the best human computer programming interface we can imagine. > enough time has passed [and then passed again] for smart programmers to > look at perl, take what is good and make something new that seems better. > > the wheel keeps turning. perl is still unique in many ways. i think > [literary] artists and anarchists will always like it because TMTOWTDI. and > to the practical minded; it just works [still]. > > programming language popularity is based on many things. the days of world > domination are ancient history; but in so far as i can see the future [i > can't], there will always be someone with a programming problem that will > turn to perl for the answer. > > thank you larry. > > -- > \js [http://or8.net/~johns/] : i am alive > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/**listinfo/boston-pm<http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm> > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
