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Perl has "little mindshare" and "little new development" in the same way as Bash. It's there, people who understand unix will reach for it when it's appropriate
by wheresmycraisin 6y ago
Perl has "little mindshare" and "little new development" in the same way as Bash. It's there, people who understand unix will reach for it when it's appropriate and it's as indispensable.
I want to know which distro removed perl because that's quite a drastic step and am interested in studying it. Sorry if that offends you.
- pvg 6y agoIt doesn't offend me, it just isn't related to the point I was making. You replied to me as if that sort of test is relevant and I don't think it is. The analogy to bash is similarly not suitable for this kind of argument - bash has never had any ambition to be a general purpose programming language, perl very much did. Unfortunately for perl, perl's own efforts in that regard pretty much eliminated the possibility of that ever happening. Python's trajectory hasn't been that, even with the travails of the 2/3 transition. 'look at how perl did things!' is just a really strange approach in a discussion about the Python 2/3 thing. That operation was successful, the patient died.
- wheresmycraisin 6y agoYou might as well tell anyone who deals with "legacy" software or any software over 10-20 years old to kill themselves, too.