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How well has Perl fared? How about Lisp and Scala that are multi-paradigm, how well are they doing?

• GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
  Perl was doing just fine until they fell in the perl6 hole and stagnated. Scala's getting its data science niche, and lisp has a lot more problems than just being multi-paradigm.
  • gpderetta 10y ago
    > Perl was doing just fine until they fell in the perl6 hole and stagnate i.e. backward compatibility is king. Paraphrasing Stroustrup, there are two kinds of languages, those that are full of old cruft and those that are too green to have been proven in the field.
    • GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
      The perl6 problem wasn't 'backward compatibility', the perl6 problem was 'this thing doesn't exist at all but it's sucking up all the momentum.'