That's an interesting article but seems to be missing the actual why of it. He still likes perl because... culture? Some people are still writing software in perl or cobol, sure - and some of that is good software that solves real problems. But the reason we think of the average programmer in one of these obsolete languages as "some sort of second-class technology citizen" is that, well, they are. Compared to the rest of us they spend more time working around language deficiencies, inadequate tooling and all the rest of it, and less time making interesting things.
Right now I'm a huge Scala fan. I've had that experience of feeling that I never want to program in any other language again (and every other language I've gone to, even those I used to like, feels clumsy and tedious by comparison). But I hope that in 25 years' time I'll have moved on to something even better. Language design isn't done, and languages are getting better all the time.
Right now I'm a huge Scala fan. I've had that experience of feeling that I never want to program in any other language again (and every other language I've gone to, even those I used to like, feels clumsy and tedious by comparison). But I hope that in 25 years' time I'll have moved on to something even better. Language design isn't done, and languages are getting better all the time.