Hmm ... I remember when Perl was king and Python was the shiny new thing. I watched Python supporters belittle Perl as "line noise" and other quite silly descr

Hmm ... I remember when Perl was king and Python was the shiny new thing. I watched Python supporters belittle Perl as "line noise" and other quite silly descriptions. They were all proud of "there is only one way do to it" versus the linguistic Perl way of "there is more than one way to do it." I am experiencing something of a sense of schadenfreude over defense of Python against a newcomer. 20 years on, Perl is still in widespread use, still unbeatable for its growing use cases. I don't wish to speculate where Python will be 20 years from now. I do know that Fortran will still be around. That's about the only sure thing.