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Took me a while to figure out what this “Perl” was, so if you’re like me, I’m gonna save you some time: “Perl” seems to be the old name of the popular Raku lang

Took me a while to figure out what this “Perl” was, so if you’re like me, I’m gonna save you some time: “Perl” seems to be the old name of the popular Raku language.

hazbo 6y ago
Perl and Raku are two individual languages. Perl is still very much alive https://www.perl.org/ https://www.perl.org/
- jhfdbkofdcho 6y ago
  I think he was making the funny
  - hazbo 6y ago
    The use of the word "popular" made me wonder this. Either way, happy to clarify the facts in the case that other people didn't get the joke.
_joel 6y ago
Jesus, this makes me feel old. Perl's been around for decades, being a very common CGI language pre PHP days and also for general sysadmin work.
- iso1631 6y ago
  Perl's pretty much dead, I haven't written any perl all month
  - iso1631 6y ago
    Perl is now alive. 100% of the code I've written this month is perl.
    - hpcjoe 6y ago
      I see what you did there! I wrote in Perl, Python, and Julia this month (yeah, 1st day). Probably will have some C++ and R as well later. We'll see.
- forgotmypw17 6y ago
  I still use it as my primary language, and with CGI too. It's lightning fast, it's mature, every problem is solved, it still works great out of the box, and compatible with just about every web server out there. By "mature" I mean that any question I google there is real content, and not just StackOverflow. Real web-based knowledgebases which also happen to be lightweight HTML, without JS required, and with real solutions to the problem.
  - doublerabbit 6y ago
    I like perl, but the temple you build with it becomes very complicated. Sadly the fortress of TCL has won me over.
    - forgotmypw17 6y ago
      I try to write it in "PHP style", meaning just a whole bunch of "my $someVariable = SomeFunction()", and as little as possible of "=~ /^#^$^&*&/ <> ;~;" It helps that I try to build and maintain two versions of the same codebase, so I tend to write in a language which is the lowest common denominator of PHP and Perl. I'm at a modest 14K lines now, and still find that I can find what I'm looking for with just a global text search...
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dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago
You made my day, thanks!
laserharvest 6y ago
Are you being sincere?

Took me a while to figure out what this “Perl” was, so if you’re like me, I’m gonna save you some time: “Perl” seems to be the old name of the popular Raku language.

hazbo 6y ago

Perl and Raku are two individual languages. Perl is still very much alive https://www.perl.org/ https://www.perl.org/

jhfdbkofdcho 6y ago
I think he was making the funny
- hazbo 6y ago
  The use of the word "popular" made me wonder this. Either way, happy to clarify the facts in the case that other people didn't get the joke.

_joel 6y ago

Jesus, this makes me feel old. Perl's been around for decades, being a very common CGI language pre PHP days and also for general sysadmin work.

iso1631 6y ago
Perl's pretty much dead, I haven't written any perl all month
- iso1631 6y ago
  Perl is now alive. 100% of the code I've written this month is perl.
  - hpcjoe 6y ago
    I see what you did there! I wrote in Perl, Python, and Julia this month (yeah, 1st day). Probably will have some C++ and R as well later. We'll see.
forgotmypw17 6y ago
I still use it as my primary language, and with CGI too. It's lightning fast, it's mature, every problem is solved, it still works great out of the box, and compatible with just about every web server out there. By "mature" I mean that any question I google there is real content, and not just StackOverflow. Real web-based knowledgebases which also happen to be lightweight HTML, without JS required, and with real solutions to the problem.
- doublerabbit 6y ago
  I like perl, but the temple you build with it becomes very complicated. Sadly the fortress of TCL has won me over.
  - forgotmypw17 6y ago
    I try to write it in "PHP style", meaning just a whole bunch of "my $someVariable = SomeFunction()", and as little as possible of "=~ /^#^$^&*&/ <> ;~;" It helps that I try to build and maintain two versions of the same codebase, so I tend to write in a language which is the lowest common denominator of PHP and Perl. I'm at a modest 14K lines now, and still find that I can find what I'm looking for with just a global text search...

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dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago

You made my day, thanks!

laserharvest 6y ago

Are you being sincere?