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"cannot fathom how these kind of languages got so much adoption" The other options built into your UNIX (maybe Linux) machine were: - C - C++ - tcsh/ksh/bas
by krupan 3y ago
"cannot fathom how these kind of languages got so much adoption"
The other options built into your UNIX (maybe Linux) machine were:
- C
- C++
- tcsh/ksh/bash
- awk
- TCL
What would you have chosen?
- kamaal 3y agoApart from Python, even today what are the options? golang/rust/c doesn't fit well the kind of tasks you would use Perl to do. There is simply too much verbosity and at some point in time you will bail out of the sisyphean nature of the task. Kotlin etc are more for mobile apps. To me, back end work is- 1. Any serious application, that needs to run for years with performance - Java. 2. Glue work- Python/Perl.
- xandrius 3y agoI wouldn't dismiss Go that quickly, and same for C#.