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Nobody loves Perl, but it holds the world together. Perl is happily unoptimized for anything, and is usable for nearly everything. It's easy to write and easy
by dsr_ 9y ago
Nobody loves Perl, but it holds the world together.
Perl is happily unoptimized for anything, and is usable for nearly everything. It's easy to write and easy to make it hard to read.
You can write Lisp in Perl, and some people insist on it.
The CPAN repository has a module for nearly everything, and an amazingly high percentage are well documented.
There are some weirdos who love Perl.
- senorsmile 9y agoI love perl. I also love Haskell and Python, but Perl was my first love.
- kamaal 9y agoPerl is basically lisp for Pirates who got banished using Lisp in production environments. No other language has done more to carry the Lisp legacy forward than Perl.
- etiene 9y agoI don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.
- ajbetteridge 9y agoI strongly disagree that CPAN is the best package manager. The CPAN repository might be one of the largest for a specific language, but the cpan comnand line is aegul, you can't even remove a package automatically with it. Don't get me wrong, because I love Perl, it was my main language for 10+ years, but the default package manger us awful.
- vgy7ujm 9y agocpanm