On 2014-09-17 at 12:32:10 -0500, B. Estrade via Houston wrote: > 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.
Immortality or omnipotence? :-P Cheers, - Zaki Mughal > > 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/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
