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YouTube / Google too.

Perl is not trendy. Companies, even those that use it extensively never communicate about it and there are no publicly visible ads on job boards. Doesn’t mean that there’s not code…

Maybe for web crawlers too.

Still active and relevant for some people from those communities, though. Without mentioning the historic value.

It’s not a kingdom, but a monestary, and that’s exactly what the WikiPedia article explained. https://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=3559

Google index is tailored for each individual. Persons with interest in breeding cats won’t be served Perl results. If Google index becomes a criterion of notability, we are in a de…

Some of the deleted pages never had the « sources missing » tag set for a significative time. It has been straight to deletion point. Some pages that survived the deletion (e.g. TP…

I makes very hard to re-start a new article. Why start from scratch when we could re-use and improve the old article? This is discouraging. I am moderately tech-savvy and had a Wik…

This « rule » is infuriating. Google searches are tailored to serve us content that might interest us. In this case, Google search first page returns plenty of notable results for …

What about maintaining the codebases that got written 25 years ago? Those still exist and needs care to stay operational. Sometimes there’s no point rewriting to the next trendy la…

Relying on large donation sponsors make the situation unstable when loosing only one sponsor?

I hope Spotify UX teams reached this.

There are ways to enforce good practices and collective code style. Take a look at perltidy and perlcritic.

I am one of the person who did the « heavy lifting » on this logo. One of the versions I contributed were actually inspired by the Clojure logo, so, I guess you are both right. In …

It’s interesting the study and toolkit is focusing on engineers. What about engineers management?

What band would it be ?

More thoughts about this, inspired by the ongoing talk https://dev.to/smonff/notes-about-the-ongoing-perl-logo-disc...

Inefficient for what? Are Perl regexps inefficient? No, they are the best. Isn't Python's Django efficient at producing full web applications in no-time with decent performances an…

After an intense period of work from november 2010 to mai 2011, I burned-out because staying at home, working all nighter, not seeing real people, having my desk twenty centimeters…

Don't believe the hype. Rust and Go are nice, but 95% of the time you don't need those. Especially when I read about the fact that it is "developed by Google for their own needs", …

You basically need almost no maths knowledge to learn programming. This is the first thing the person that trained me told us. Especially for fields like web development and stuff.…

Since the 90's, Perl, always there for you

DDG is a search engine that respect your privacy. DDG doesn't put you in a « bubble » based on your location, search history, your browsing history, physical moves, time of day, co…

Really? That's really a shame you know. Solving the anxiety of suffering people is already not that bad.

Please don't.