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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...