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Let's not forget that Perl 6 was announced because Perl 5 usage was already stagnating. Perl 6 was supposed to fix that problem. But it ended up making it worse.

> The backwards incompatibility of Perl 6 absolutely killed Perl. I think the backwards incompatibility was a minor issue compared to how long it took for Perl 6 to be released. It…

I want to teach myself modern CSS. Other people might find it useful too.

> The whole thing was written in perl 4 style OO Perl What does that mean? Perl's basic OO support (using blessed hash references) was introduced with Perl 5 in 1994. I have no ide…

I wrote the book that I wish had been available when I started using GitHub Actions

Hey, it worked for the COBOL crowd 25 years ago :-)

> I think this was because Perl's early success in the 90s was based on CGI.pm, not frameworks. Exactly, the second wave of dotcom software was largely written using frameworks tha…

> Perl never had this kind of traction afaik - yes many scripts were written on Perl but not many .com companies were based on it. Were you around for the first (pre-2000) dotcom b…

I'm semi-retired. I have a part-time contract maintaining a system I worked on a few years ago and I pick up other bits of freelance work from time to time. And I've been prototypi…

> The ecosystem is also pretty much dead, it's not unusual to find bugs in packages where the issue tracker hasn't been responded to in 10 years, and the issue for the bug you're i…

Speaking as a London-based freelancer specialising in Perl, I can tell you that the number of companies developing new systems in Perl is tiny (like, maybe, half a dozen). Until fo…

Historically, it was the Perl web site for a long time. It was registered by Tom Christiansen in 1994 and soon afterwards, he let O'Reilly run it - and they used it to post useful …

It was supposed to be some kind of link-up between Perl 5 and Perl 6.

I wish :-)

I wouldn't really describe it as an ebook. It's just the PDF that Manning made back in 2001 when the book was published. I'm getting reports that the PDF looks horrible in various …