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> "I expect this trend will continue, as I strongly doubt that many new green field projects would today choose Perl as the principal development language." Ma
by adulau 16y ago
> "I expect this trend will continue, as I strongly doubt that many new green field projects would today choose Perl as the principal development language."
Maybe but checking regularly the CPAN recent updates ( http://search.cpan.org/recent/ http://search.cpan.org/recent/ ), it seems that Perl is still very active and especially in the activity of providing API or pipe to other technologies/libraries.
At the end, large or medium sized projects are using different programming languages for different tasks and there is no such thing as the "principal development language". Diversity is great...
- derleth 16y ago> Perl is still very active and especially in the activity of providing API or pipe to other technologies/libraries. If Parrot comes to full fruition, CPAN should be available to (at least) both Ruby and Python about as easily as it's available to Perl. If Parrot comes to full fruition.
- draegtun 16y agoYou can already run some CPAN modules in Rakudo (Perl 6) on Parrot. See Blizkost (which comes with Rakudo): https://github.com/jnthn/blizkost https://github.com/jnthn/blizkost Here is an example which works (using CGI module from perl5/CPAN): use v6; use CGI:from<perl5>; my $q = CGI.new; print $q.header, $q.start_html('Hello World'), $q.h1('Hello World'), $q.end_html; PS. re: some CPAN modules - Only "well behaved" Perl5 modules will work. I've tried four and got one to work. However this is a good start methinks!