Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

[Walter Hurry]

On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:32:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, jmfauth <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are plenty of good reasons to use Python. There are also plenty
>> of good reasons to not use (or now to drop) Python and to realize that
>> if you wish to process text seriously, you are better served by using
>> "corporate products" or tools using Unicode properly.
> 
> There are plenty of good reasons to use Python. One of them is the
> laughs you can get any time jmf posts here. There are also plenty of
> good reasons to drop Python. One of them is because corporate products
> like Microsoft Visual Studio are inherently better specifically because
> they cost you money, and there's no way that something you paid nothing
> for can ever be as good as that. Plus, you get to write code that works
> on only one platform, and that's really good. Finally,
> moving off Python would mean you don't feel obliged to respond to jmf,
> which will increase your productivity measurably.

TMML. Thanks!