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This made me think of something: it's my subjective experience that there is a relative dearth of Perl articles/discussion posted on HN. Is this correct? And if

by itmag 14y ago

This made me think of something: it's my subjective experience that there is a relative dearth of Perl articles/discussion posted on HN. Is this correct? And if so, why is that the case? Hackers don't use Perl anymore? :) Is anyone here using Perl in a significant way for their startup?

berntb 14y ago
Perl discussions historically tended to be trolled mercilessly on HN, seemingly from adherents of certain competing language environments, so I assume people don't like to post discussions of Perl here.
danweber 14y ago
Anything I would use Perl for, I use Ruby instead.
draegtun 14y ago
re: Perl posts on HN - There's actually quite a lot of Perl articles posted here (and I maybe the main culprit of that!). However only a small subset percolate to front page. re: startups - Ones that quickly come to mind... Lokku, Blekko, Moonfruit, DuckDuckGo, CareerJet & Adzuna.
chromatic 14y ago
Is anyone here using Perl in a significant way for their startup? Onyx Neon ( http://onyxneon.com/ http://onyxneon.com/ ) isn't a startup, but the main part of our publishing pipeline is Perl. (Half of it is on CPAN, and the rest will soon be there.) Of my other business ventures, two are entirely Perl on the server side and the other uses Perl substantially.
glanch 14y ago
I knew zero Perl until this year. At work a few months ago I was given the job of maintaining a massive legacy app from the 90s written in Perl. It's been.. interesting. Lots of client/server code. At this point I can manipulate most of it to do what I want, but there are still huge parts of it that are just 'magic, do not touch' status to me.
colomon 14y ago
My tiny company's been around for 13 years now, so it doesn't qualify as a startup. My Perl 5 scripts are very important to my business, and I've even got a couple of Perl 6 scripts helping out these days.

by itmag 14y ago

berntb 14y ago

Perl discussions historically tended to be trolled mercilessly on HN, seemingly from adherents of certain competing language environments, so I assume people don't like to post discussions of Perl here.

danweber 14y ago

Anything I would use Perl for, I use Ruby instead.

draegtun 14y ago

re: Perl posts on HN - There's actually quite a lot of Perl articles posted here (and I maybe the main culprit of that!). However only a small subset percolate to front page. re: startups - Ones that quickly come to mind... Lokku, Blekko, Moonfruit, DuckDuckGo, CareerJet & Adzuna.

chromatic 14y ago

Is anyone here using Perl in a significant way for their startup? Onyx Neon ( http://onyxneon.com/ http://onyxneon.com/ ) isn't a startup, but the main part of our publishing pipeline is Perl. (Half of it is on CPAN, and the rest will soon be there.) Of my other business ventures, two are entirely Perl on the server side and the other uses Perl substantially.

glanch 14y ago

I knew zero Perl until this year. At work a few months ago I was given the job of maintaining a massive legacy app from the 90s written in Perl. It's been.. interesting. Lots of client/server code. At this point I can manipulate most of it to do what I want, but there are still huge parts of it that are just 'magic, do not touch' status to me.

colomon 14y ago

My tiny company's been around for 13 years now, so it doesn't qualify as a startup. My Perl 5 scripts are very important to my business, and I've even got a couple of Perl 6 scripts helping out these days.