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Re:Perl is 26 Today by virtualsue on Thursday December 19, 2013 @06:57AM (#6934109)
I run into many Scala fans amongst Java developers. It's the current shiny thing in that technology area. Good old Java (of a similar age to Perl) is usually what they're making their living doing...
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Re:Perl is 26 Today by stevan_little on Thursday December 19, 2013 @11:29AM (#6935624)
Actually Perl 5 is older then Java by about a year (yes, Perl had OO support before Java even left the lab). But Perl itself is much older then Java, by several years.
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Re:Perl is 26 Today by lmm on Thursday December 19, 2013 @07:00AM (#6934121)
Sucks to be them; I'm fortunate enough to do Scala professionally. I think "shiny" is unnecessarily dismissive; the productivity and safety advantages are real enough.
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