True. I can't see why anyone learning a new language would choose Perl over Ruby...

marcocampos on Jan 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers

True. I can't see why anyone learning a new language would choose Perl over Ruby or Python. And yes, I know all about the wonders of CPAN, awesome text manipulation features and all those things that come up whenever people try to defend Perl.