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While the language is still growing, the direct point ESR is making is that there is a lot of legacy Perl code in use, and this is not likely to change soon.
by silentbicycle 17y ago
While the language is still growing, the direct point ESR is making is that there is a lot of legacy Perl code in use, and this is not likely to change soon.
- SwellJoe 17y agoI took it to mean that Perl was like COBOL: Nobody is writing new software with it, but there's so much code out there that people will be maintaining it for years to come. While the latter is true, the former is not...so Perl is distinctly unlike COBOL in every possible way except that there is a large installed base of legacy code in the language (which applies to every popular language ever, including Python at this point).