>Stepping outside the Perlish echochamber for a moment I'm surprised. Many people can't do this. Honestly haven't seen any perl since a hackthebox machine bef

>Stepping outside the Perlish echochamber for a moment I'm surprised. Many people can't do this. Honestly haven't seen any perl since a hackthebox machine before covid where you compromise a user with a perl shell. >In practice, Python has snowballed simply because of network effect. Everyone knows Python so everyone uses it so everyone new has to learn it. I would interject and suggest this is incorrect. Python has 1 thing that Perl does not. ‘{‘ and ‘}’ and ‘;’ and $`’, ‘$&’ Clearly unnecessary. Python simply does it better. By that simple reality Perl is doomed to death. >Does the colour of the spoon really matter that much, or is it simply that everyone wants the same colour, regardless of what it is? Do we want to throw away what makes our blue spoons distinctive blue colour just to get in with the "in" crowd, even though we don't actually like green? This is a very bad analogy. It's making the assumption that all spoons are equally effective. Syntax alone the green spoons are green spoons but Perl's blue spoons have a different handle, 1 with spikes that may hurt you. Why do people use the green spoons? They have scars on the hands from the spikes.