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Isn't the 'kitchen sink' approach what ended up causing Perl to fade from relevance? I am only casually aware of this, and I may be totally misremembering thing

Isn't the 'kitchen sink' approach what ended up causing Perl to fade from relevance? I am only casually aware of this, and I may be totally misremembering things, but Perl used to be seen as a swiss army chainsaw but people eventually came to realize that maintenance was a nightmare.

fractalb 4y ago
Perl faded away because there was an alternative (Python) and it was not a kitchen sink. For C++, there's no alternative at all. People have to bear with it.
- kasabali 4y ago
  Ironically Python is now fast approaching the kitchen sink status.
- robmccoll 4y ago
  I think Python's original take on kitchen sink was relatively small language with large "batteries included" standard library.
pornel 4y ago
From my webby perspective mod_php has been the Perl killer, and PHP isn’t known for being lean either.