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That was not my experience (at least with perlmonks) back when I used Perl, but maybe I'm mis-remembering things. I think part of Perl's downfall was that TMTO
by badc0ffee 1y ago
That was not my experience (at least with perlmonks) back when I used Perl, but maybe I'm mis-remembering things.
I think part of Perl's downfall was that TMTOWTDI became too many ways to do one thing, and it was too easy to create terse, unreadable code. Basically, the opposite direction of modern concepts like "idiomatic Go".
I'm sad that Perl is dying while people are still writing fucking bash scripts in production code. (Perl is still better than that!)
- quesera 1y agoPerl was great! But perl came and went. Shell scripts are forever. So far.
- pabs3 1y agoPerl is still here, lurking in the corner.
- rsynnott 1y agoHuh. As someone who worked in Perl a very long time ago, my strong impression was always that Perl died almost entirely due to Perl 6/Second System Syndrome; Perl 5.x became, implicitly, the already-outdated thing, and yet Perl 6 wouldn't meaningfully exist for like two decades.
- badc0ffee 1y agoThere was that, too. But I remember people being happy to use the latest Perl 5 and expecting it to be continually updated (which is still is today). Perl 6 was considered a different language altogether at best, and vapourware at worst. Still, I can definitely see someone new to the language thinking Perl 5 was a dead end.