Perhaps of interest, O'Reillys Open Source Language Roundtable webcast from OSCON. Representing Perl is Jim Brandt (of the Perl Foundation):

"We all have our favorite languages in our tool-belt, but is there a "best" overall language? If anyone can hash that out, it will be the members of this roundtable discussion, some of the stars of the open source language space."

Cheers

Martin

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Re: Open Source Language Roundtable
by Zen (Deacon) on Jul 23, 2009 at 13:35 UTC
    Is the webcast description supposed to sound like flame bait? Are they really having a holy war webcast? With all those representatives, I'd hope to hear something more .. meaty.

      I didn't get a chance to watch it live (3am my localtime IIRC), so I'm waiting for it to be posted online. I took the description directly from the page, and interpreted it to be lighthearted rather than anything else.

      Cheers

      Martin