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How many of those "water cooler" conversations you had with someone who actually knew and used perl for at least a few projects? Most of perl hate I hear is fro
by ivanhoe 9y ago
How many of those "water cooler" conversations you had with someone who actually knew and used perl for at least a few projects? Most of perl hate I hear is from people who've seen like 2 perl one-liners in life and got scared by $, @, and %'s in syntax...
- CoC_CRUSHER 9y agoI used to use perl regularly. It was installed a lot of places and was superior to the other common options. The tooling for things like python,.net langs, and C++ are decades ahead now. It's just less error prone to use those. Part of that is because of Perl's grammar; part of that is the culture of the language. Also, a lot of the CPAN modules have been orphaned for over a decade and npm/matt's script archive level quality on average.