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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by pjmlp on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:14AM (#7317567)
> Evidently every 5 years or so we need to all jump on the bandwagon to a new language?

Not only languages, but every other technology as well.

After all, people need to sell:

- tooling

- trainings

- books

- consulting work

- write blogs about cool stuff

- and the most important one, sell certifications

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by reality_czech on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:48AM (#7333048)
Tools and documentation for modern languages are free, just like Perl's own docs.
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