What I see happening is the "dilution of brains" in the universities. In order to let all the idiots get degrees, they have been "passing on curves" for quite some time, and the result is that the colleges and universities are full of people who have no technical aptitude at all, but they all want "high paying engineering jobs"(after all it's their right isn't it? :-) ). So they are pushing languages which make it a no-brainer to program with point and click interface for everything. They say the same thing about C. The C++ people say "C is obsolete, don't bother with it", but you can see that C++ is more likely to die before C will. I doubt that they will ever write an good OS in C++.

Perl will never die, even though there are alot of ignorant corporate executives who are trying to kill it. They try to kill and discredit what makes them look ignorant. If they passed some "law against Perl", there would be a whole underground which would keep it going.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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

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