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On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:45:53 -0500
Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:

> A quote from Computer World (http://tinyurl.com/bxqjed8):
> 
> "... the Python Software Foundation (PSF) - a non-profit supporting
> the venerable Python programming language ..."
> 
> Venerable?  Come on.  Fortran is venerable.  Cobol is venerable.  Old 
> farts use things that are venerable.  I don't want to be an old fart 
> (not that I have much say in the matter).
> 
> I use Python because I want to be one of the cool kids, doing new hip 
> stuff.  Has the language really progressed to the point where it's
> being called "venerable"?  If I want to be one of the cool kids, am I
> now going to have to switch to Lua or Scala or (please, no)
> JavaScript?

ECMAScript then.