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> At the time it was a good choice. It isn't now. Isn't a good choice for _what_?

• cageface 15y ago
  Any new development, really. Don't get me wrong. I think Perl was a brilliant piece of language engineering in its day and its influence on subsequent "scripting" languages is unmistakable. But why would anyone without significant prior investment in the language choose it for new work now? It's just too cryptic and idiosyncratic compared to the obvious alternatives.
  • phaylon 15y ago
    I just want to note that I would answer, if the question would seem in any way sincere. But I don't think I could say anything that would bring you to consider that other people might have other opinions, and that they're not simply invalid because you don't share them.
    • dextorious 15y ago
      You understand that besides "opinions" and "sharing them" there is also an underlying objective reality right? At least in an engineering practice, like computing. One doesn't have to consider "other opinions" or deem them "valid", if one knows them to be wrong. And in our profession we have lots of ways of knowing wrong from right.