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I think you are in the right direction -- the problem with perl is it's hard to find high-quality internet articles about it. There are many excellent articles
by CJefferson 4y ago
I think you are in the right direction -- the problem with perl is it's hard to find high-quality internet articles about it. There are many excellent articles about (picking a random example I care about) the borrow checker, or async, in Rust. There might be even better books, but the articles give me something to be inspired by and start investigating.
I think Perl's decline started 15-20 years ago, as that's when Perl 6 was "coming soon", and people didn't bother learning Perl 5 because of that. I can't remember ever seeing an interesting article about programming in Perl, either here or on Twitter.
- oalders 4y agoThe Perl Advent calendar is back this year. We'll have plenty of high quality posts to read there this December.
- JadeNB 4y agoThanks—it never even occurred to me to look! https://perladvent.org https://perladvent.org
- sateesh 4y agoHad to disagree that there aren't high quality posts on perl. For example the articles from perl by MJD https://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/ https://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/ are top notch. Similarly the articles from Randall Schwartz are quite good. But all these articles were written long ago. Since perl has fallen out of favour these days, probably there are less posts covering Perl and consequently fewer high quality articles that are recent.
- midoridensha 4y ago>I think Perl's decline started 15-20 years ago, as that's when Perl 6 was "coming soon", and people didn't bother learning Perl 5 because of that. Reminds me of the Osborne Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect