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The dude equivocates programming in Perl to programming in FoxPro, both are simply "deprecated" and "hard to find." Is this true?
by chriscappuccio 3y ago
The dude equivocates programming in Perl to programming in FoxPro, both are simply "deprecated" and "hard to find." Is this true?
- senko 3y agoPerl is not so much deprecated, more like the community performed collective jump off the cliff with Perl 6. If you think Python 2->3 transition was ugly, you haven't been watching that slow-mo trainwreck.
- Jorengarenar 3y agoWait, wasn't Perl 6 rebranded as new language Raku?
- senko 3y agoI believe so, after years of being vapourware and basically stopping Perl 5 development right when web as a platform started being important.
- cesarb 3y agoPerl 6 did get released, with that name, after years stuck in development (source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/12/26/0354235/perl-6-released https://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/12/26/0354235/perl-...). Only later was it rebranded.
- lizmat 3y agoIn 2019 to be precise: https://raku.org https://raku.org
- biorach 3y agoThe guy way overused "deprecated" in that article. Perl 5 is alive and well, and while not the most actively developed of languages still has a steady trickle of small improvements. It's installable in all major linux distros and you can probably get code from 2 decades ago running without much hassle. Most people would shudder at the thought of starting a new project in it, but if you need to keep a legacy codebase going the community have your back for many many years to come.