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But what he said is true. With all the focus on Perl 6, Perl 5 stagnated for nearly 20, with barely any improvements. Other languages came along and displaced
by Vvector 5y ago
But what he said is true. With all the focus on Perl 6, Perl 5 stagnated for nearly 20, with barely any improvements. Other languages came along and displaced Perl for many jobs.
No, Perl won't disappear any time soon. It still excels at a few things. And like Fortran and COBOL, Perl will also have a long life as a legacy language.
- emilper 5y ago... why do you think Perl 5 stagnated for 20 years ? There were like 10% performance improvements at each new release, a lot of work was done in modules which was by design Perl 5 having a small core and a lot of the features being implemented in modules ... What feature exists in other languages (except for CPU types: int, float, char etc.) and does not exist in Perl 5 ?
- b2gills 5y agoIt wasn't even stagnant for a full 10 years, let alone 20. Perl 5.8 was released in 2002 Perl 5.10 was released in 2007 It has had a release every year since 5.12 in 2010. The latest was 5.32 on 2020-Jun-20. (Less than a year ago.) The book Modern Perl was first released in 2010. It's 4th edition was released in 2015. --- Even if you ignored 5.10, there is only 8 years from 5.8 to 5.12 when the yearly releases started happening. I really don't understand how you managed to get 20 years from any of those dates.