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"In the past, Perl applications could be found on most computers." I'm not sure I could fill a bus if I located every programmer in my area who ever used Perl
by cafard 7y ago
"In the past, Perl applications could be found on most computers."
I'm not sure I could fill a bus if I located every programmer in my area who ever used Perl on a PC. But as someone points out the tone of the page appears to be tongue-in-cheek.
On the other hand, I think "(worse yet) Java" would make a great .sig line.
- alecmg 7y agoHave used Parl at its height. After studying Java and C courses Per felt like a language I can finally do something useful without boilerplate. And for simple text processing it was fast enough. But then codebase grew... Switched to Python and never looked back past 15 years. Please let Perl die