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Perl aficionado here! Thanks to Amazon, the cool new replacement for Perl seems to be Python, even though it’s only about 4 years younger, so most younger devs
by temporallobe 4y ago
Perl aficionado here! Thanks to Amazon, the cool new replacement for Perl seems to be Python, even though it’s only about 4 years younger, so most younger devs I know aren’t even aware of Perl’s existence. While Perl may not be used in too many legacy Enterprise applications, it certainly is the “glue” of many legacy systems. Plus, every once in a while I get to dust off my Perl skills and wow my colleagues with how easy it is to do file I/O and regex in just a few lines with no libraries. It certainly gives me a skills advantage.
- bogomipz 4y ago>"Thanks to Amazon, the cool new replacement for Perl seems to be Python,..." Interesting, is it Amazon as in AWS that make heavy use on Python then? If so I'm curious is this for specific areas within AWS? I always imagined AWS to be lots of systems programming languages.
- cutler 4y agoAWS was built mainly with Java as far as I'm aware.
- cutler 4y agoAmazon used to have a lot of Perl code. So it's all moved to Python? Give me Larry over Guido any day.