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Like the fan bases of sports teams, the communities that follow competing technologies can get in each other’s faces. The same is often true of competing programming languages and frameworks, like ...

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Okay, something finally snapped and it's time to give up Perl and learn a better scripting language. The two that I have under consideration are Ruby and Python although other suggestions are ...