Kurt Stephens

Is Perl Dead? Hardly.

http://digg.com/programming/Perl_is_Dead_Long_live_Perl

But, after 16 years of Perl programming, and now working for a Ruby on Rails shop for the past 8 months, I haven’t touched any Perl and I’m happy.

For me, the excitement about Ruby on Rails isn’t Rails, but Ruby.
Ruby is all the things I had always wished Perl was.

Ruby is:

• Object-oriented all the way down — You don’t have to roll your own MOP.
• Modules are first-class — they can be queried and changed at run-time.

• Still supports non-OO programming.

Frankly, I see no reason to go back to Perl except for CPAN. :)