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Why would this surprise you? Perl continues to improve and is battle tested. More Perl is written today than ever before (that said, much more software in gener
by freyfogle 10y ago
Why would this surprise you? Perl continues to improve and is battle tested. More Perl is written today than ever before (that said, much more software in general is written than ever before, and there is no doubt Perl's share has declined). Particularly if you're doing lots of text processing Perl remains a great choice.
- mooreds 10y ago> Particularly if you're doing lots of text processing Perl remains a great choice. And, when you get right down to it, a huge chunk of web dev falls into that category.
- gkya 10y agoA huge chunk of life is text processing nowadays.
- fahrradflucht 10y agoTwo great talks when it comes to the questionable greatness of Perl: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292200_-_the_perl_jam_exploiting_a_20_year-old_vulnerability_-_netanel_rubin https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292... https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7130-the_perl_jam_2 https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7130-the_perl_jam_2
- autarch 10y agoThese are really not great talks at all. The speaker doesn't seem to actually know much about Perl, and it seems like the flaws he's found have little to do with Perl, and more to do with just writing insecure code. See http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2015/12/response-to-the-perl-jam-2.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2015/12/response-to-... for one response and some discussion in the comments.
- pre_action 10y agoBetter rebuttals to those talks: https://gist.github.com/preaction/978ce941f05769b064f4 https://gist.github.com/preaction/978ce941f05769b064f4