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As a comparison, I peeked at some Delphi/pascal code I'd written and a book a few weeks back and it was still parseable by my brain years later.
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I used python for a bit but switched to Perl because it 1) Works 2) Is ubiquitous 3) Is stable 4) Is normal (semicolons, braces etc)
> 2) Is ubiquitous On which systems do you have Perl readily available but not Python?
Perl 5 is Perl 5 everywhere.
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> 1) Works Almost anything can "work" > 2) Is ubiquitous So is awk, don't write software in it. > 3) Is stable This will become questionable as Perl slips into non-maintained mode. > 4) Is normal (semicolons, braces etc) Perl syntax is very far from "normal"
Perl is a general purpose programming language. The Perl interpreter and language are stable, it's not going anywhere soon. Perl and its syntax have been around a lot longer than most other languages and is very similar to C, C++, JavaScript and PHP. What do you consider normal syntax?
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Wait, what? Perl 6 is real, released and essentially stable. The ecosystem for the language is also evolving at a good pace.
>Perl 6 is real, released and essentially stable. So is Duke Nukem Forever.
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>Perl 6 is real, released and essentially stable. So is Duke Nukem Forever.
we waited for them since the very beginning of the millenium, i played with both and here is the difference: DNF is very desapointed and is not the revolution i expected. Perl6 is a game changer and push the idea of "scripting" way beyond i was imagining it (and i played with a lot of langages)
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From a experienced linux sysadmin point of view perl5 is as good as it gets. I've been searching for alternatives for about 10 years now, at first because my novice self was heaving headaches reading other people code and even my own. I hated perl but I hated everything else even more as I came to know them. No autovivification? Some assignments copy the data and some create references and you need to memorize the co…
Out of interest, what do you feel is holding back Perl 6 from being a replacement for Perl 5 in your usecases?
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Which is ironic, because even the most ardent Perlies among us were wringing our hands about its inevitable decline well before then.
The rate of increase must have been declining (i.e. rate of rate of increase negative) in order for it to have peaked. This was probably detectable.
Looks like peak Perl was about 2012-2014. :(
Which is ironic, because even the most ardent Perlies among us were wringing our hands about its inevitable decline well before then.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl%20t...
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl
There are also anecdotes such as this:
https://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=1225020
Perl6 was supposed to help with this. It has yet to do so.
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Perl more than any other language I know depends on the self-restraint of the programmer to write readable code and not be overly clever with their syntax. I’ve worked on some large Perl codebases in the past that were as readable and maintainable as, say, Python.
That is not normal.