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Ooh, please don't badmouth perl. Modern perl (e.g. https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fou
by singingfish 11y ago
Ooh, please don't badmouth perl. Modern perl (e.g. https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition ) is a much more sanely designed environment than modern php is.
- contingencies 11y agoI originally wrote a long comment about how I've written CPAN modules and worked professionally in perl but will never do it again, explaining why technical betamax superiority was irrelevant because perl's users left before it got its act together, but I think in hindsight a simpler summary would be this: grep 'man perldsc' ~/.bash_history|wc -l
- singingfish 11y agoeach to their own. I'd like to do more stuff in other languages, but my perl skills are in too high demand, and it's fun.