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Oh 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?
by zoul 16y ago
Oh 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.