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You see a troll, I see a lack of introspection on your part.

• perlgeek 16y ago
  How much reflection do you spend on a single-word comment? Python is not Perl, how can it be Modern Perl? I know that some people think that Ruby and Python continued the tradition of scripting languages that Perl brought to mainstream, and that they are both modern in some sense, but that doesn't make them Modern Perl in any way. Would you care to expend the thoughts that you think my introspection should have produced, that let the reply not be troll?
  • toddh 16y ago
    What length of comment is required for you to begin introspection? This does a good enough job: http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/11/why-perl-lost-it.html http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/11/why-perl-lost-it.html. I personally look to lack of advancement of the language and lack of adoption for new ventures. Google adopted Python for GAE, for example. Heroku used Ruby for their PaaS product. When you look at new devops tools they aren't written in Perl. So, it's not a matter of what is better, it's more a matter of other scripting languages are now in the slot/brand/niche/mindshare where Perl once would have been. So in that sense they are the modern perl.
    • chromatic 16y ago
      When you look at new devops tools they aren't written in Perl. That statement seems to assume a zero-sum game and begs for non-anecdotal evidence. (Paul Graham wrote Hacker News in Arc instead of Ruby on Rails or Django; clearly they're losing ground too!)