Re^2: Should I come back to Perl?

[jekyll]

\o,

actually, both of your scenarios lead to the final fall of Perl 5 as having the ex-Java crowd around rarely means an improvement for any language, right?

[Anonymous Monk]

jekyll

...having the ex-Java crowd around rarely means an improvement for any language, right?

I can confirm. I swear our simple Objective-C app has a CORBA server embedded in it just to populate 20-character read-only text fields. That's a mild exaggeration, but you get the idea. Put there by ex-Java heads, of course; I assume fleeing the world of Tomcat or some such.