zoul, I don't think that was a value judgment or a criticism. I think strick's point is that a new programmer is far more likely to pick up Ruby or Python than

zoul, I don't think that was a value judgment or a criticism. I think strick's point is that a new programmer is far more likely to pick up Ruby or Python than Perl these days - (s)he's more likely to learn it in school, more likely to learn it for a popular MVC framework, etc.