I think he is referring to the pot calling the kettle black, implying that Python is as "legacy" as Perl. I concur.
There is so much energy in the Perl 5 and Perl 6 worlds right now, it makes working in Python feel like I'm "slumming it". But I still contribute to PyPI and attend/present at Python events because at the end of the day, we are just 2 beautiful drops in the bucket of a Java/C# sludge world. I think it behooves us to work together. Perl has taken many good ideas that started in Python and Ruby, and made them better for Perl. Python could learn a lot from looking at Perl and Ruby. But if you choose to keep your head in the sand and believe that other languages are dead, it is your language that will soon be "legacy". http://acmeism.org -- Ingy On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> wrote: > eh? I don't get it :) > > nimret > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, geremy condra <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ingy dot Net <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Parrot is in active development. It is the VM for the Rakudo >> >> implementation of Perl 6 which is in very active development. >> > >> > and how long have they been in design/development? :) >> > >> >> >> >> Maybe it's from my days of working at ActiveState that I naturally >> think >> >> of Perl and Python as peers. We should have a SeaPIG/SPUG/Seattle.rb >> meetup >> >> sometime. >> > >> > imo perl is legacy. I haven't done any perl ( thank god!) since the late >> 90s >> > and I haven't heard of any new perl work being done anywhere in the last >> 10 >> > years. Lots of new startups in the area are using python. of course, >> > java/jvm still trumps both but I am biased ( I run SeaJUG :) >> >> Legacy pot meet legacy kettle ;) >> >> Geremy Condra >> > > > > -- > Nimret Sandhu > http://www.nimret.org >
