Re: "Perl is the Cobol of the WWW"

Take what he said in this way: Perl has been around for long time with WWW application, just like COBOL in some other areas. However this does not mean that Perl will fade away any time soon like COBOL did.

As for the project, if he is the person to decide the language, just let him decide. Most likely not much you can do.

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Re^2: "Perl is the Cobol of the WWW" by castaway (Parson) on Oct 19, 2005 at 08:16 UTC
Just recently I talked to someone who was not only maintaining COBOL programs, but actually still writing new ones.. So, "faded away" ? (And I know of at least one other company that uses it) C.	[reply]
Re^2: "Perl is the Cobol of the WWW" by adrianh (Chancellor) on Oct 19, 2005 at 12:56 UTC
However this does not mean that Perl will fade away any time soon like COBOL did. Fade away? Surely some mistake :-) You'll be amazed at the amount of COBOL out there at the moment, and the amount of new COBOL that's still being written. We should hope that Perl will still be used as much as COBOL is more than forty years after it was created.	[reply]
Re^2: "Perl is the Cobol of the WWW" by TStanley (Canon) on Oct 19, 2005 at 18:04 UTC
My company still uses COBOL and we are constantly writing new programs and improving older ones. COBOL is a language that has been around for a long time, and I don't quite see it falling dead by the side of the road yet. TStanley -------- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke	[reply]