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

From: Wiggins d Anconia (wiggins_at_danconia.org)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:24:16 -0600
To: "Gavin Henry" <ghenry@perl.me.uk>, 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.
>

I'm impressed, come to the Midwest in the US, around here they have only
heard of M$ and Cobol. Ironically, Python is showing its age, just look
at Ruby. Of course Perl 6/Parrot stands to make all of the discussion moot.
 
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