From: Tim Greer <tim@...>
Date: 2009-01-08T03:54:50+09:00
Subject: Re: a good career choice ?

Larz wrote:

> Perl is old and provided much of the
> inspiration for Ruby.

In response to that, C and C++ are older than Perl and are always going
to be around and popular (and well used), as is Perl.  Perl provided
the inspiration for PHP (being embedding Perl code in a web page, is
how PHP came about).  It is really hit and miss, some jobs might want
you to know Ruby, or RoR, or C, or C++, or Java, or Perl, or VB, or
Python, or something completely different.  I'm not saying you're
suggesting "Perl is old, so it's not popular" or something, but I've
seen people suggest that, which isn't the case.
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