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It's interesting. I started Perl in around 2005, and moved entirely to Python in 2014, exactly when it reached it's peak and started to decline. Seems I wasn't
by tus88 7y ago
It's interesting. I started Perl in around 2005, and moved entirely to Python in 2014, exactly when it reached it's peak and started to decline. Seems I wasn't the only one.
- INTPenis 7y agoPretty much same story for me. I started dabbling in Python 2013 and the move was final in 2014 when I had started using Ansible full time. Before that I was a huge Perl fan. I even ran a localized version of perl.cctld in my country. With documentation in our local language.
- latchkey 7y agoNow I feel old, I started with Perl 4 around 1992-1993. There wasn't even a CGI query args parser library yet, you had to roll your own.
- blihp 7y agoNah, you're still a youngster. Got Perl 1 via Usenet in 1988 when there wasn't even a web yet.
- tus88 7y agoWhat kind of web server would even be calling Perl CGI scripts in 1992? I thought it was all bulletin boards back then. Personally I just got my first PC and was learning to play Commander Keen in 1992 ;-)
- latchkey 7y agoI started with perl in 1992, ncsa httpd came out in 1993, which was the first release of CGI. I ported EBBS/BBS to A/UX and ran one for a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_HTTPd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_HTTPd https://github.com/virtadpt/eBBS https://github.com/virtadpt/eBBS (my name is in the credits)
- unpixer 7y agoMy first exposure to Perl pattern-matching was a magic regex for parsing CGI input handed down to me by a more experienced coder. "Don't ask how this works."
- latchkey 7y ago"Write once, read never" is another good Perl quote someone told me once.