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I'll give you one more reason: they decided to start coding in python and ruby instead.
by strick 16y ago
I'll give you one more reason: they decided to start coding in python and ruby instead.
- zoul 16y agoOh please. It’s been shown over and over that modern Perl is a very pleasant ecosystem to work in, can we spare such childish comments for other websites?
- chawco 16y agoThis may be true today, but there is a cadre of developers who will never find out. Perl was our bread and butter 10 years ago, but we moved on when Python and Ruby came to the forefront, and have never looked back. To get people interested in it again Perl can't just be 'pleasant' -- it needs to be better in the way Python and Ruby were better back then.
- matt_p 16y agoit is better than they are now, let alone how they were back then :)
- endtime 16y agozoul, I don't think that was a value judgment or a criticism. I think strick's point is that a new programmer is far more likely to pick up Ruby or Python than Perl these days - (s)he's more likely to learn it in school, more likely to learn it for a popular MVC framework, etc.
- Vivtek 16y agoI think that was a statement of historical fact, not a value judgement.
- p_nathan 16y agoPerl does not have the sex appeal of Ruby or Python right now. That's a shame, but that's the way it is.
- marcocampos 16y agoTrue. I can't see why anyone learning a new language would choose Perl over Ruby or Python. And yes, I know all about the wonders of CPAN, awesome text manipulation features and all those things that come up whenever people try to defend Perl.
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- viraptor 16y agoAnd a direct result of that - if you have to hack on some recent application, it's much more likely to be written in something else than perl, so you rarely get the chance to learn more. The only one I run into in the last couple of years was octopussy... and that one's definitely not a work of art...
- grammaton 16y agoSpeaking from personal experience - after years of using Perl, switching to Ruby was an immensely pleasant and gratifying experience. Many fewer wtfs per minuite, and a largely expanded set of capabilities. Perl may be capable of 95% of what Ruby can do, but learning the special cases and sticking points is a major PITA.
- __david__ 16y agoFor me, learning Ruby after years of knowing Perl was a resounding "meh." The documentation is substandard compared to Perl's and it doesn't really offer anything that Perl does except for less weirdness in the nooks and crannies and some improved syntactic sugar in some cases (though when I look at Ruby code all I see is "end end end end end"). And Python certainly has its own feel. But again it's not really any more powerful than Perl and offers nothing but an alternate simplified syntax. Programming in Python makes me really miss Perl--I always feel like I'm speaking baby talk instead of full blown English. Really elegant baby talk, but baby talk none the less.