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If you'd hit the 'reply' button seven years ago, you might have more reality to back up your assertions, but now you're just plain wrong. In, say, 5 years Perl
by gamache 16y ago
If you'd hit the 'reply' button seven years ago, you might have more reality to back up your assertions, but now you're just plain wrong.
In, say, 5 years Perl won't have the luster it once did
I like Perl, I think it's a solid language, but it's become stagnant amidst a huge degree of innovation.
As the best Perl hackers evaporate away off to concentrate on newer languages and technologies only the dregs will remain. Without exceptional hackers innovating within the language the lack of innovation of the language will become more apparent.
Perl's been on an upward trajectory for years now. The language and ecosystem has steadily taken on features from Perl 6 and beyond, most notably the Moose object system (which could totally beat up your favorite language's object system in a fight). And the best Perl hackers don't seem to have gone anywhere.
(And come on, you clearly don't like Perl, so it's disingenuous to say you do.)
- sreque 16y agoI've already head this conversation at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1377077 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1377077 about Moose. Moose is good, but it's not that good, and certainly not nearly enough to make up for the terrible language underpinning it.
- jrockway 16y agoWhat language is not terrible?
- alnayyir 16y agoJ Scourges weakling humans, lets me write code like a stack of paperclips.
- forkandwait 16y agoOMG!!! I actually maintain J code!! There are, like, 10 of us in the whole universe. I think more people speak Quileute than still use J (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quileute_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quileute_language)... for good reason ...
- draegtun 16y agoMoose is good, but it's not that good I think its "good enough" to tempt people to use Perl.
- berntb 16y agoSince you don't seem to consider the best OO system around a part of the language, I assume you are a functional fanatic?
- sabat 16y agoPerl's been on an upward trajectory for years now I have significant doubts about that (I speak as someone who did perl programming for years). the best Perl hackers don't seem to have gone anywhere Depends on who you consider to be the best, but a lot of them have gone to Ruby, Haskell, Clojure, and other more modern languages. Perl had its day. That day was the 1990s and early 2000s.