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As a duckduckgo user, I think this is great. FWIW, Perl is still on my list to learn :) edit: fixed spelling
by jmclnx 2y ago
As a duckduckgo user, I think this is great. FWIW, Perl is still on my list to learn :)
edit: fixed spelling
- pjmlp 2y agoRegardless of its fame, it is a worthy tool on UNIX environments, even nowadays.
- imglorp 2y agoLast I heard, DDG used it in production.
- pjmlp 2y agoAs does Booking.com, and plenty of sysadmins.
- gtirloni 2y agoIt's an absolute technical liability to build anything new in Perl these days.
- pjmlp 2y agoOr not. I could assert the same about C since Morris Worm, and here we are.
- rurban 2y agoIt's more of a technical liability to write anything new in Python. All of my old perl code still runs fine, all of my python code went unusable since. It's also extremely bloated.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoI upgraded to Debian 12 and all of a sudden my Python 3 code is destroyed and I have to jump through hoops to make pip work correctly again for libraries that were already on my machine. I'm leaving for greener pastures as the webdevs have ruined another good scripting language.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoPerl is maybe the most enjoyable language I've ever coded in up until I'm forced to read someone else's code which is always hellish.
- thwd 2y agoIt's a write-only language.
- knowitnone 2y agoWrite Once Read Never(WORN)
- speed_spread 2y agoProgramming is an individual activity; developing software is a social activity. Current tools and teaching are still biased in favor of the former, resulting in most of our troubles in the latter.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoThe legend of the 10x programmer certainly didn't do our industry any favors either.
- shagie 2y agoAs a perl programmer from decades past (I transitioned to Java during the perl 6 winter), I've been finding that groovy and even more recently scala are really nice tools for what I'd have traditionally done in perl. When doing this year's advent of code, some of the terseness of symbols reminded me of perl. Perl lost me and I transitioned too far away from its ecosystem professionally to return for more than a dalliance or occasional debugging ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16219876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16219876 ).
- gregw2 2y agoOne of my impressions as a Scala newbie coming from a perl background years ago was that Scala practitioners' culture in a corporate setting tended to end up with code bases that reminded me of corporate perl code bases - suffering from "theres more than one way to do it" disease. A bit too easy to be obscure for me to use/recommend it since then despite the nice typing, actors, lazy evaluation, etc. Not sure if this TMTOWTDI Scala resonates with others knowing both or not...