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Recently, I'm seeing a small trickle of Perl posts, which makes me wonder if this is the beginning of a new trend.
Is Perl making a comeback?
please not
The largest problem is that it's largely unreadable, a write-only language. There's too much magic in Perl. Perl 6 is making strides to correct this, but the culture of Perl is what makes me believe that it will never be a viable choice over other dynamic, interpreted languages. I moved to Python and will never look back. The Perl culture is exactly what lured me in to programming, so I'd rather it not change anyways.
There are definitely still companies using Perl in production, but my guess is that it's always for legacy reasons.
I was a Perl hacker for almost three years. It was my first dynamic, interpreted language and is what made me fall in love with writing software. Writing Perl was when I first felt that I was hacking rather than programming. The largest problem is that it's largely unreadable, a write-only language. There's too much magic in Perl. Perl 6 is making strides to correct this, but the culture of Perl is what makes me beli…
The problem with the English language is that it allows writers like James Joyce to get their work done just as it does E. B. White.
I was a Perl hacker for almost three years. It was my first dynamic, interpreted language and is what made me fall in love with writing software. Writing Perl was when I first felt that I was hacking rather than programming. The largest problem is that it's largely unreadable, a write-only language. There's too much magic in Perl. Perl 6 is making strides to correct this, but the culture of Perl is what makes me beli…
What's wrong with Perl culture? Perl as a language and as an implementation has many weaknesses (esp. maintainability), but I've never seen any reasonable criticism of its culture as a whole. Only very recently have I noticed a somewhat annoying trend towards evangelism, I attribute this to the loss of interest in the language with the exception of somewhat fanatic users. But most current users are probably still grumpy old men like me who just want to get work done without rewriting large legacy code bases from scratch.
For many of us, Perl never went away. Been using it since the early 90s. It's ugly, but I know it, it does the job well, and it's reliable.
Still, on the same, evolving code base!