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I'll be downvoted for that but isn't Perl been replaced by Python in the last 7-8 years? I've never seen Perl used in the companies I've worked for in the past
by Thaxll 10y ago
I'll be downvoted for that but isn't Perl been replaced by Python in the last 7-8 years? I've never seen Perl used in the companies I've worked for in the past 6 years.
- hedora 10y agoI think python adoption is kinda an overreaction to perl 5's warts: for example, too much punctuation switches to too little. Python does a few things much better than perl 5. The obvious ones are the REPL and support for C bindings. However, I still find it miserable to work with. Hopefully, perl 6 learned from python's mistakes (as well as from perl 5's mistakes).
- vgy7ujm 10y agoNo. It's sad but I often have to teach younger JS and Python devs about Linux and Bash. And one aspect of Perl is as a better Bash. I honestly have no idea why Python got so popular in that space. Those Python guys are always amazed when I show them a much more elegant Perl solution to their problem.
- gkya 10y agoI'd say that the new generation leaned towards Python, Ruby, and the like instead of Perl, and with a boom in computer geek culture, those communities just outgrew the Perl one. Also, because the languages like Python, Ruby and JS are used in startups and the like those got more coverage in conferences and books, courses etc. And now anything that doesn't have that sort of traction seems to be obsolete and/or born to die by some. That said, frankly your comment is a bit off-topic and irrelevant--and you may get downvoted for that--because the question was not "Why use Perl 6 or not" but literally "What you do with it".