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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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