Perl is the cool language to me. I don't even want to learn Python. Any language without whitespace freedom is ridiculous to me. (Ruby and Lua can wait till I am a Perl master. Scheme may get a look-in at some point sooner.)

We should stop saying "Perl is no longer cool". Perl is incredibly cool.

People who don't like Perl are what is "not cool", at least until they are proven cool in spite of the massively uncool drawback of not liking Perl.

(My dear cousin, a talented PHP developer, gets a pass on this one. Despite being fairly cranky until his 9th coffee and rollup. Just because.)

In reply to Re^2: Perl and the Future by Dumu
in thread Perl and the Future by hangon

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