Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
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Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
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#2a bit off topic,
but i really wish if jetbrains creates an ide for perl, similar to their pycharm or phpstorm
i believe compared to other younger languages perl can be overwhelming, and i think a great ide will go a long way reducing the barrier of entry to new comers
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#3a bit off topic, but i really wish if jetbrains creates an ide for perl, similar to their pycharm or phpstorm i believe compared to other younger languages perl can be overwhelming, and i think a great ide will go a long way reducing the barrier of entry to new comers
Agreed. I have told JetBeans that they won't get a sale from my company due to not having any kind if perl support (even syntax highlighting). EPIC plugin for eclipse ain't perfect, but its better than nothing.
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#4I love his system of regularly evaluating other languages to see what advantages they might offer him.
It just goes to show: Don't worry about using the "best language", just use the best language for you.
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#5a bit off topic, but i really wish if jetbrains creates an ide for perl, similar to their pycharm or phpstorm i believe compared to other younger languages perl can be overwhelming, and i think a great ide will go a long way reducing the barrier of entry to new comers
a bit off topic, i really wish Perl CMSes would stop dropping Postgres support in favour of a MySQL only strategy (Movable Type and WebGUI [Plain Black], this means you). You'd think DBI did not exist or that this was really PHP.
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#6>Ruby - Now that Perl has Dancer/Plack/Moose, Ruby has nothing that Perl doesn't have (at least that I've seen). Therefore no reason to switch.
>Python - Basically the same argument as Ruby, except that in my opinion Python isn't half as good of a language as Ruby.
IMO he kinda missed the main ideological differences, benefits, pros, cons of both ruby and python.
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#7>I've been using Perl since 1996, but it became my language of choice in 2001.
Did the rest of the article need to be written?
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#8I feel like that, among Perl startups, DuckDuckGo is the elephant in the room these days.
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#9I love his system of regularly evaluating other languages to see what advantages they might offer him. It just goes to show: Don't worry about using the "best language", just use the best language for you .
Based on what he posted, either he's doing an extremely superficial comparison or he's done a proper one and realised there is actually not a lot in it when talking about modern languages.
Fair enough, he wants to continue to use Perl because it's familiar and there aren't really massive advantages to using the other languages, that's a fair point, but state that as opposed to having a tone that suggests Perl is a better language than the others, or at least back that up with something quantifiable.
On the other hand, Perl (when comparing php, python, ruby) would be last on my list because it requires the most effort to learn and get familiar with the syntax and I don't think the extra work required to learn Perl is worth the effort, because again, I think you'll actually be alright with the modern versions of all the languages.
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#10I've been a Perl fan for years and I really enjoyed using the language in my personal projects (and in a couple of professional projects, it was "the secret ingredient"), but I couldn't fight all the prejudices surrounding Perl; so I finally gave up and learnt Python hoping to find a quality job as software developer.
It worked out pretty well and I found a great job. I love doing Python, the community and the culture behind the language, so I've never looked back.
I get contacted from time to time by recruiters looking for Perl developers but the truth is that it is still less frequent than Python; and now I don't have to explain that you can use a powerful language in different ways and that it's up to you if your code is readable, maintainable and easy to deploy.