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"On the hacker radar screen, Perl is as big as Java, or bigger, just on the strength of its own merits." And 10 years later, I know a bunch of hackers using Ja
by efsavage 16y ago
"On the hacker radar screen, Perl is as big as Java, or bigger, just on the strength of its own merits."
And 10 years later, I know a bunch of hackers using Java, and not one single person, even former perl junkies, that is using Perl for anything besides "it's a little too much to do this in awk".
- maw 16y agoI met a few people last month who still use it for larger projects. My reaction was along the lines of, "Really? No, wait, really? REALLY? Nuh-uh." Unsurprisingly, I suppose, I was told that, since I gave it up as a too much trouble, conventions and patterns have emerged that, when followed, make Perl more scalable (in the sense of being usable in the context of large programs) and maintainable.
- aristus 16y agoIt happens. PHP turned into a decent language when I wasn't looking.
- staunch 16y agohttps://github.com/languages https://github.com/languages
- chromatic 16y agoI've used Perl 5 on four new consulting projects in the past year.