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Perl's sweet spots were CGIs & sysadmin. The advantage for sysadmin was easier portability in the days when there were a ton of flavours of UNIX systems. The e
by xyzzy123 1y ago
Perl's sweet spots were CGIs & sysadmin. The advantage for sysadmin was easier portability in the days when there were a ton of flavours of UNIX systems.
The ergonomics & distribution of Perl in the 90s were unmatched, Ruby, Python, Lua were niche in comparison.
The other killer feature was CPAN, the Perl community basically invented language package management and everyone else copied it.
- edoceo 1y agoCorrect and the Patterns are repeating. Cycles. These are all transitive things. Reminder to keep some old-heads around, for perspective.