On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Julian Brown via Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone says Perl is dead. I have been working in Perl for 11 years, I > don't think it is dead. >
The feelings of immortality that one derives from running Perl-based services on top of FreeBSD is worth the abuse. Brett > Julian > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Mike Flannigan via Houston <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> I talked to my nephew today. He will graduate from >> a tech school in Computer Science, or some similar >> degree related to computer software. >> >> I asked him what software languages he uses. Java, >> C Sharp, something else, and believe it or not >> Cobol and AS400 (for govt work). I said what about >> Python. Oh, that's pretty much dead he says. I said >> "and of course Perl is dead, right?" Yeah, he says, >> nobody uses Perl, except you. >> >> Yeah, OK. Sure. >> >> I asked him what he would recommend for somebody if >> they don't use Java. He says "C Sharp, I guess". >> I asked him about Go. He had never heard of it! >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Houston mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston >> Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
