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Outside of the start-up world Perl is still heavily used and Ruby is probably not quite as popular as you believe.
by absconditus 15y ago
Outside of the start-up world Perl is still heavily used and Ruby is probably not quite as popular as you believe.
- ajross 15y agoIn fact Ruby is completely unknown out of the trendy web startup set. I routinely have to explain it to people I meet. Python is huge though. Most people know it, many like it. Though I find far fewer people love python than perl5 or Ruby. But perl is still there. It's still my tool of choice for most scripting, and for some fundamentally good reasons that are unlikely to change in the near future. Perl scripts fit more naturally into single files. They deal better with the enclosing unix environment (i.e. they expose things like signals instead of trying to abstract them). Operations like pack/unpack and I/O piping work in fewer tokens and more clearly than in other environments. It's just a great language. It makes me sad that everyone wants to flame about it.
- cageface 15y agoSo why are none of the heavy users of Perl willing to stump up some cash to fund its development?
- Mithaldu 15y agoThey actually do. Check the Perl Foundation website. :)