Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Perl Is Undead

Posted by samzenpus on 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.

1 of 283 comments (clear)

  1. Modern Weak Languages by c0d3r · · Score: 0, Troll

    It probably has lost popularity because all of these newbies can't handle a more powerful language, and have to go back to basic like languages. I could do lots with little code in Perl. Python looks like a BASIC with some c and perl features.