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As someone who still loves Perl I don't want to say Perl is mostly-dead, but it's dying and it influenced all popular scripting languages today.
by latenightcoding 4y ago
As someone who still loves Perl I don't want to say Perl is mostly-dead, but it's dying and it influenced all popular scripting languages today.
- melling 4y agoIt’s been dying for 15 years. First slowly then “all of a sudden” What’s merlyn doing these days? His response to the early warnings that “Perl is dying “ was “more people use Perl now more than ever” The downfall of Perl should be a “case study”. Other communities should learn from the Perl community’s mistakes. Java also had many problems for quite some time but its frequent update cycle seems to have helped.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y ago>> What’s merlyn doing these days? It looks like he's still doing Perl: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-8th/9781492094944/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-8th/97814...
- cardanome 4y agoPerl is nod dying but but in a process of metamorphosis with hope to one day turn into the beautiful butterfly that is Raku