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<ul><i>because that's FUD</i></ul>
<p>Huh .. too bad. I dealt with FUD with Microsoft continually slamming OS/2 in the late 80's, where we slagged Windows NT on the Canopus form on Compuserve. Good times.</p>
<p>I developed code in C before moving to Perl in the late 90's, and was advanced enough that I was comfortable using function pointers in my code .. so when I wanted to do the same thing Perl, it was there already. Perfect, because being able to declare a callback function (one example of a function pointer) is extremely handy.</p>
<p>And I don't really care what the TIOBE results say .. if a CTO contacts me to say 'Perl developers are really hard to find' and 'Are you available?', I don't find the burning need to go learn a different language. And, of course, the Perl community has been very supportive and welcoming. So I'm not going anywhere anyway. :)</p>
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<p>Alex / [talexb] / Toronto</p>
<p><small>Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.</small></p>
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