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Perl gets installed wherever `git` CLI is available, generally. I'd say it's more ubiquitous. And it doesn't suffer from the python2/3 split.
by webstrand 3y ago
Perl gets installed wherever `git` CLI is available, generally. I'd say it's more ubiquitous. And it doesn't suffer from the python2/3 split.
- librasteve 3y agonot to mention the perl5 / perl6 split perl6 is now called raku
- kstrauser 3y agoNeither does Python, for years now.
- doubled112 3y agoI'm pretty sure people are going to be haunted by it for years. I just updated some internal scripts for Python 3 this year. I believe they should have been Py3 when they wrote them. It was not my decision, but it did become my problem.
- bla3 3y agoThat split was terrible and it took over a decade to fully resolve, but it's behind us now.
- thyrsus 3y ago...for those lucky enough to be able to do so. I've been promised the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 systems will be replaced in two years. 10 years ago, they were to be replaced in one year.
- toast0 3y agoPerl did have a 5.6/5.8 split over unicode, but it wasn't nearly so bad. By the time 5.10 came out, I think everything had been sorted. Or my work changed and I stopped running into code that I needed to patch 'use bytes' into.