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Perl Is Undead

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:08AM from the go-ahead-and-watch dept.

Ptolemarch writes At the Yet Another Perl Conference beginning today in Orlando, the first keynote squarely blamed Slashdot for starting the "Perl is Dead" meme in 2005. Let's be clear: if Perl was ever dead, it must now be undead. If you can't be at YAPC, you can still watch it live.

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Re:It should be dead by preaction · 2014-06-23 10:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

Shall we drag out all the other obfuscated code contests and judge all languages guilty by the most heinous crimes committed with them? Remember that C and C++ give us Windows.