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

[Greg Ewing]

Roy Smith wrote:
> 5 years from now, they'll be comfortably mainstream.  10 years 
> from now, they'll be old-fashioned.  And 20 years from now, they'll be 
> dinosaurs.  Don't let yourself become a dinosaur.

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...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg