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Perl is the ultimate hacker's language. It was for the 90s and 00s what Microsoft BASIC was to the 1980s. However, I think it's also coming back. Most of the
by amerika_blog 13y ago
Perl is the ultimate hacker's language.
It was for the 90s and 00s what Microsoft BASIC was to the 1980s.
However, I think it's also coming back. Most of the "inefficiencies" it got tagged with were relics of the server model at the time, like CGI.
Now many are seeing that mastery of a general-purpose language is better than knowledge of specialized methods in a specialized language.
The first is flexible; the latter is not.
- untothebreach 13y agoI also think that things like Modern Perl[1] are helping to move the community away from the "line-noise" style of Perl that it was (in)famous for back in the day. 1: http://modernperlbooks.com http://modernperlbooks.com
- amerika_blog 13y agoI agree and think that much of that line-noise style was prompted by the wild west nature of the web at the time, more than Perl itself.