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In summary: not dead yet because of all the legacy code and because of the "Modern Perl" movement. However: many of us believe that Perl's day has come and gon
by sabat 16y ago
In summary: not dead yet because of all the legacy code and because of the "Modern Perl" movement.
However: many of us believe that Perl's day has come and gone and that truly modern languages like Ruby and Python have supplanted it. Absolutely true for me; I never use Perl when I can use Ruby -- not because of political reasons, but because Ruby is more elegant, readable, and concise.
As always, YMMV.
- chromatic 16y ago> ... truly modern languages like Ruby and Python have supplanted it. In what ways? Certainly not in testing culture, nor available libraries, nor the power of features such as language extensions or object systems, nor in flexibility. Screencasts, perhaps?