So what's making Perl decline? Ship-jumpers, bad press (e.g., press that compares Python to Perl and asserts that Python is better)?

Gavin's "political" reasons definitely would suggest a lot of power...sufficient to drive the changes, IMO.

I'm still curious about the language reasons(i.e., technical reasons) from the Monk's who are more versed in Python that I am. I tried to learn it about 2 years ago...but got bored and kept wanting to get back to my beloved Perl. I'm definitely settling into the 'old dog' stage of my career (and life, probably).

ack Albuquerque, NM

In reply to Re^3: Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by ack
in thread Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by Gavin

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