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Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?
by lallysingh 7y ago
Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?
- mfontani 7y agoThe NYT, surely - as they helped produce one of the best Perl profilers out there: https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf
- h3throw 7y agoI'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it
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- lallysingh 7y agoGood point. There's probably good money in the "host all the stuff that's old and scary" business.
- Coffeewine 7y agoMy org is still writing new code in perl5. The degree to which it's unappealing is, in my opinion, greatly overstated.
- greglindahl 7y agoMost folks who like complaining about perl5 are doing so because they've worked with some terrible old codebase written in it. Terrible code is terrible code. But well-written perl5 code can be fun to work with.
- john-radio 7y agoI'm not much of a Perl user, but [its user community](https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/perl-not-dead-it-was-early-web-novices-gave-it-bad-name https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/perl-not-dead-it-was-...) is surprisingly strong and enthusiastic (even if they do talk about Python the way the TF2 community talks about Overwatch).