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Perl isn't dead so much as it's primarily only used in production by older sys admins but it still has a community that loves it, VB.NET is alive and well in Mi
by ParamModule 9y ago
Perl isn't dead so much as it's primarily only used in production by older sys admins but it still has a community that loves it, VB.NET is alive and well in Microsoft shops and among noob malware authors.
My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk.
But this is coming from a guy who's favorite pls are erlang, SML/NJ, and Ocaml lol.
- overloadrix 9y ago> My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk A curious definition. Not only Smalltalk is still used (e.g. in fintech), but it's intelectual virtues are always revisited and rediscovered by new generations who, invariably, try to come up with a "modern" version of it, or something inspired by it.
- marvy 9y agoLike Ruby!
- rurban 9y agoLike ruby? AFAIK nothing new ever came out of ruby. It was just a nice pure implementation of smalltalk on top of Perl. Of course the everything is a method strategy and unoptimized MOP burned them. Just look at their new jit. Can anybody think of a worse strategy to implement a jit? There are serious technical and management problems. V Makarov at least wrote the register machine before the naive cc -> so jit, but then the Japanese came and even ripped that out.