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Ah scripting languages.. All the code has to be revriten every few years when a new language version and a new language of the week becomes popular, and the co
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Ah scripting languages..
All the code has to be revriten every few years when a new language version and a new language of the week becomes popular, and the code written in Perl in 1994 still works.
- andybak 5y agoPerl isn't a scripting language? At one point it was surely the canonical example. My Python 2.7 code still runs in Python 2.7 so I'm a little unclear on your point in general.
- ambrose2 5y agoI think they were criticizing rewrites such as Perl > Python or Python 2 > Python 3 as happening too often. Python 2.7 still runs but it’s not officially supported and will be harder to maintain.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoI was just saying (technically making fun of) that everything except perl gets rewritten every few years :)
- andybak 5y agoNot for want of trying! Perl is the granddaddy of the ill advised big rewrite ;)
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoI still have a perl book from 1994 (perl 5.0), and scripts written from the 90s to now, that still work without any issues, even on modern distros :)
- andybak 5y agoThat's not the point I was making. I was alluding to the Perl 6 story.