I do not agree with this article because Perl and JavaScript are two whole different languages. I use Perl everyday to write simple scripts from everything to running Regular Expressions (while I'm not using Python). I've faintly used JavaScript when writing web applications in node.js, but I've never really needed it for anything else. Perl can do web and GUI development (in Perl/Tk and CGI), but it does way more. JavaScript only does web development, while Perl does way more. I would agree with a statement more like "Python is the new Perl", but nothing else seems to come close to Perl.
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I do not agree with this article because Perl and JavaScript are two whole different languages. I use Perl everyday to write simple scripts from everything to running Regular Expressions (while I'm not using Python). I've faintly used JavaScript when writing web applications in node.js, but I've never really needed it for anything else. Perl can do web and GUI development (in Perl/Tk and CGI), but it does way more. JavaScript only does web development, while Perl does way more. I would agree with a statement more like "Python is the new Perl", but nothing else seems to come close to Perl.