Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.

From: Gavin Henry (ghenry_at_perl.me.uk)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:20:50 +0100 (BST)
To: beginners@perl.org

I really like Perl, but lately everywhere I seem to go and talk to say I
shouldn't be learning Perl as it's old and Python is better.

Since starting to learn Perl though, every other language I started to
learn/t, C, PHP etc. seem to make more sense now, as Perl has cleared
things up.

When I look at Perl, I can understand it (it kind of looks like bash),
when I look at a Python script, ugh.

I have been also trying to do some gui work with perl using wxperl, Python
seems to be much better suited/supported (for wx) and I couldn't find very
many docs for wxperl. What else is good looking to use?

I love CPAN.

Basically, my morale is getting low and I need a boost from you guys. Perl
isn't old is it?

I am on the right path?

Be kind ;-)

Thanks all,

Gavin. 

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