@michaelgemar @siracusa Developers today: Discrimination against older developers with decades of experience is real, and users and newer developers are worse off because of it. The replies here: hurr durr these mature, still actively maintained languages which have solved a lot problems and provided a lot of value to people are lame because they’re not new.

@tvaughan @siracusa The OP John is well-known for his love of Perl, and is often good-naturedly joshed about it by his various podcast co-hosts.