Hi, Perl isn't dead, it's just that the pushers of Android and all the various HTML generating languages wish it was dead. :-) Perl5 still is by far the best general purpose toolkit to have, mostly because of all the modules available.

The big IT departments want to train people to use the latest whiz-bang language, and forget about Perl, but those programmers go obsolete as soon as their new language wears out it's usefulness. It seems that programming in this day and age requires you to learn new languages every few years, but Perl5 is like a rock, and it just goes on and on being useful.

I have to admit, Julia looks good, but dosn't it always seem that the direction in interpreted languages is to get down to the C or C++ level? I was just reading an article today on how PhP is being superceded by programs which convert it's interpreted code into C++.

Besides Perl5, I consider C and C++ as the only other languages which seem eternal, and therefore worth learning.

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