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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by volaski on Sunday February 14, 2016 @09:44PM (#11101231)
Maybe you think you "comprehend" his point because you decide to interpret it in your own way. But it was not coherent (and honestly I'm not even sure if that was a snark in there or not, mostly because it was incoherent).
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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by zzzcpan on Sunday February 14, 2016 @10:24PM (#11101354)
No, it was interpreted pretty much correctly, except for the Perl part, which I should clarify.

Perl is definitely dead, I think most people know that. The link was posted to illustrate that other links from that site were painting incorrect picture.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by blisterpeanuts on Sunday February 14, 2016 @11:44PM (#11101558)
How is a tool like Perl dead when it's still heavily used on hundreds of thousands of machines all over the world? Is C dead as well? I would say, a tool is dead when it's no longer in wide use. Perl is hardly in that category quite yet.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by bjwbell on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:12AM (#11101634)
It's dead because new projects aren't started in Perl unlike C.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by JBReefer on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:54PM (#11107422)
Your point stated more generally is that while C is the best tool for a wide set of use cases, for each of the one-time use cases of Perl there is now a better option
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