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I'm one of those people who achieved enlightenment with haskell and Lisp and yet still enjoys firing up perl for the occasional project or script. Perl is stil
by zaphar 16y ago
I'm one of those people who achieved enlightenment with haskell and Lisp and yet still enjoys firing up perl for the occasional project or script.
Perl is still very much alive and not at all stuck in a bad place. It may be easy to get that impression in your local circumstance but in the larger sense Perl is thriving. It's even gasp still grabbing young developers. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
- sigzero 16y agoNot only that but Perl 5 releases are now picking up and very good things are being backported from the Perl6 effort. There is a lot of talk on cleaning up internals and doing things that make P5 better over all. I am very excited over it all.
- someone_here 16y agoOne of the many things I love about Perl is how you never get that feeling of "I'm writing this again?" It's the first language I've used that really helped the developer, and it's what still brings me back to using the language.