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> Microservices are rarely extraction or reporting Perl is just Perl now, just as LISP is now just Lisp; Perl is not, if it ever was, the "Practical Extraction

by JadeNB 10y ago

> Microservices are rarely extraction or reporting Perl is just Perl now, just as LISP is now just Lisp; Perl is not, if it ever was, the "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language", any more than Lisp is now "LISt Processing".

mhd 10y ago
And if we're talking about the other version of the acronym, then Perl is ideal for webservices and related technologies. Listing rubbish is what a lot of the modern web seems all about.
- imglorp 10y ago
  That, and swiss army chainsaw.