I usually say "I agree. Sad, isn't it. Ah, well." A wise opening anecdote. "Dead language" trolls have very little experience and even less wit. If you bother

I usually say "I agree. Sad, isn't it. Ah, well." A wise opening anecdote. "Dead language" trolls have very little experience and even less wit. If you bother trying to spend the time to properly refute their arguments, they'll go off on a tangent about market share, mind share, and other very ephemeral things. It's often easier to let them walk away feeling right and get back to business. Dead-language-haters are in my experience, are a vapid and eccentric lot. The majority of them have a lot of criticism for something they have absolutely no experience with or knowledge of. Damian does a great job of pointing this out in the interview without being as snarky as myself. He has an infinite amount of patience for Perl's critics it seems. I cannot count the number of times he's had to repeat the same arguments over and over. Even with the overwhelming amount of evidence he backs his statements with, people still keep asking him if Perl is a dead language. That's why I think waving them along and getting back to work is a great idea. Let the smug weenies feel right and wear their proud little smiles as they walk away. I'm sure their satisfaction with themselves will keep them coding for many weeks to come. In the mean time real people with real work to do can get back to doing what they do best. In their un-hip dead-language of choice. Great interview, Damian. :)