Sorry, I already wasted too much time learning too much Perl to leave it cold turkey, but I will be promoting other technologies over Perl at every opportunity because of my recently gained knowledge of the kind of people who make up the Perl community, as well as for more technical reasons.

If I abandon Perl, it will be after I had developed one of the best Perl based link checkers and site map makers and one of the best Perl debugging tools around, both with fewer bugs than the average software product, if any, and both written using my style, which some of you apparently think is so bad that it's better that I never post here again.

Unfortunately for Perl programmers everywhere, most of you (at least the ones who have gone public) have driven me to charge for a debugging tool that every Perl programmer would otherwise use, rather than make it a module or freeware. You not only want to inflict your style preference on others, but you don't know what's good for yourselves and you don't know when to shut up with the OT and insulting posts. It must just be a youth thing or the way Perl is taught by the literature and in school, but I still hold it against the Perl community.

it's always important to let others decide what's good for you.
No it isn't, but it usually should be a consideration, and it should be a major consideration when you decide what community you should support, what programming language to add to a school curriculum, and what language should be used by programmers you hire. However well Perl compares to other languages technically, it could still become obsolete, and if you've seen a better study that shows Perl's usage trends, please share it.

In reply to Re: Fearing the demise of Perl by Wassercrats
in thread Fearing the demise of Perl by Wassercrats

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