On Thursday 08 January 2009, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Stuart Jansen wrote: > > I'm going to start by asking why anyone would care about Parrot. No one > > cares about Perl anymore. Python is just as powerful and easier to read. > > Perlites, you've been attacked. Is Perl really dying? > > http://lwn.net/Articles/309375/
Yawn. The entire economy is dying. Pick something you don't like. It is probably dying. Meanwhile I'll go back to my day job and program in Perl. Paul PS - Ovid, while an advocate for Perl, often seems a lousy advocate for Perl. If you want to know what is happening with Parrot/Perl 6, I'd suggest: http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal or http://planet.parrotcode.org or http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=983 or http://rakudo.org/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
