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If we assume peak Perl was in the 00s, say 2005, an impressionable teenager of ~15 learning by then probably will keep using it for the rest of their life, even
by Qem 1y ago
If we assume peak Perl was in the 00s, say 2005, an impressionable teenager of ~15 learning by then probably will keep using it for the rest of their life, even in absence of uptake by new people. Assuming a lifespan of 85, I estimate this day won't arrive before the 2070s.
- macintux 1y agoI started using it in the mid-90s, and used it extensively at work as long as I could, but by 2012 I gave up the fight. I still break it out once in a great while for a quick text transformation, but it’s so rusty in my memory that I rely on an LLM to remind me of the syntax.
- nkozyra 1y agoI think peak Perl was before then, but that's about when Perl fell off the map and started getting replaced by Python or PHP to replace CGI since it had some syntactic overlap. This is when I started professionally and we were asked to replace "slow, old Perl scripts" As a new entrant, I didn't ask many questions, but I also didn't see any of the replacements as improvements in any way. I think the # of devs left to take over messy Perl projects was shrinking. As you might imagine, this job involved a lot of text processing. People still point to that as the arrow in Perl's quiver, but it seems especially quaint today since any language I'd reach for would blow it out of the water in terms of flexibility and ease of use.
- tayo42 1y agoThat's how I remeber the time line. But I thought maybe the end of the 00s was when ror started showing up. Mid 2000s I think i was learning php and lamp stack. Perl was already kind of old
- xmcqdpt2 1y agoI was that teenager and I still think Perl is very neat but I don't think I can write it anymore without lots of doc reading.