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Still the best all-purpose language. Trend languages like Ruby and Haskell are flashes in the pan.

• dons 13y ago
  Not sure I want to do BlackScholes and MC or solving SAT problems or data structures in perl.. But text processing , hell yeah. perl -pei ftw! The legacy is perl REs
  • dima55 13y ago
    Why not? PDL exists for numerical computation. Works fine.
  • Mithaldu 13y ago
    You can probably do those with PDL.pm :) http://pdl.perl.org/?page=screenshots/index http://pdl.perl.org/?page=screenshots/index
• codygman 13y ago
  Haskell is a trend language? It is only 3 years younger than perl! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language) "Appeared in 1990; 23 years ago"