Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

Joshua Landau joshua.landau.ws at gmail.com
Mon May 6 12:04:30 EDT 2013


On 6 May 2013 13:03, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>wrote:

> On Mon, 06 May 2013 17:30:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80
> >>> characters wide.
> >>
> >> No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life?
> >
> > Well you see, it was 70 bytes back in the Python 2 days (I'll defer to
> > Steven for data points earlier than that),
>
>
> You had bytes? You were lucky. When I were a lad, we used to have to
> program by punching holes in stone tablets with our head.
>
>
> You-tell-young-people-this-today-and-they-don't-believe-you-ly y'rs,


I do have my doubts, yes.
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