Is Perl *that* good? (was: How's ruby compare to it older bro

[Aahz]

In article <c6kps2$cnung$1 at ID-169208.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Greg Ewing  <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>I suspect that, 20 years from now, there will still be a language
>called Python, and it will still be quietly and unobtrusively kicking
>all its competitors' backsides.
>
>Whether it will bear any resemblance to the Python of today is another
>matter...

Heh.  Something like twenty years ago, a family friend pontificated that
in the year 2000, there would be a computer language.  He didn't know
what it would look like, but he did know that it would be called FORTRAN.
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