On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Dov Levenglick <dov.levengl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I said "dying", in the same context (although not to the same extreme) > that COBOL is a dying language. > I agree with your position, Shlomi. Thanks. > I really hope that Perl will not die like Cobol at least not in the next 10 years... -- Ori Idan > > > Dov Levenglick > דוב לוונגליק > http://dov-levenglick.com/ > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org>wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:51:13 +0200 >> Dov Levenglick <dov.levengl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I am not venting nor am I an outside observer. For my own scripting >> uses I >> > use perl - it's what I like using and what I feel competent in. I also >> used >> > to teach courses in perl. >> > The question wasn't an emotional one in which I was calling for people >> to >> > declare their loyalty to perl; it was a factual one. >> >> Well, I think asking if "Perl is a dying language?" is an emotional >> question >> rather than a factual question because "dying" is something that is based >> on >> feelings rather than on facts, and is hard to discern concerning all the >> available data (some of which is hard to collect). >> >> In any case, I still use a lot of Perl because it's the language I'm most >> comfortable with and because I find it has some clear advantages over >> similar >> languages. However, I don’t restrict myself to Perl and have been looking >> at, or >> found employment with, other languages and technologies, including >> Python. I >> really dislike tribalist attitude of "us against all the rest", and we >> should >> always look at the more global picture and what benefits man-kind in the >> long >> run. Also see: >> >> >> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=larry-wall-all-truth-is-gods-truh >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish >> >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ >> Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy parody) - http://shlom.in/selina >> >> <rindolf> I am not solvable. I am Turing hard. >> >> Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > Perl@perl.org.il > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >
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