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This is hardly a surprise. No matter if you like a language or not, you have to acknowledge that we don't develop software in a vacuum and we cannot ignore mark

This is hardly a surprise. No matter if you like a language or not, you have to acknowledge that we don't develop software in a vacuum and we cannot ignore market trends. Don't fall in love with your technology [0]. (I won't comment on the Python 2 rewrite though) I like Perl a lot. Out of the usual, interpreted dynamic languages, it is still my favourite. It's fun, incredibly expressive, got some things right early on (CPAN) and the community is probably the most entertaining out there. It also caters to a kind of developer that no longer exists, or at least is in the minority now. I will keep it as a sort of dirty pleasure for myself. Among the likes of Forth and Lisp. [0] https://prog21.dadgum.com/128.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/128.html

HeckFeck 6y ago
> It also caters to a kind of developer that no longer exists, or at least is in the minority now. The one developer I met who liked Perl was quite the character. He thought in a certain way I envied. Once he rewrote a bash script into Perl just for fun (and to confuse the rest of us). As a gratuitous side effect, the Perl script cut execution of the same task from over 1m in Bash to a matter of seconds. I've resolved to learn it myself now, even if it nudges me more towards a mode of thinking. There's still plenty it can do.