Re: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?

[davido]

Go learn Python. After that, learn something else. And don't stop there. Someday you will be the person people ask such questions of. Prepare now to provide informed replies.

I've arrived at the conclusion that the Perl way of doing things is to never stop looking for new areas to explore, and to always use the most appropriate tool for a given job, even if it happens to be a different language. With this approach, I find that when I'm working with one of the other tools out there, I encounter ideas that make me a better programmer.

Not surprisingly (to me), with this outlook I end up using Perl a lot.

Many years ago I had the opportunity to learn a foreign language to the point of fluency. Not for a minute was I concerned that English would cease to be important to me. And when I returned to my home country, I discovered that after shaking off the rust, I had acquired a deeper understanding of my native tongue as well.