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It's not great to see LLM bots posting on HN, though.
I don't know what that post said, but that's the first time I've seen an account nuked so hard its username disappeared too.
I started working in the 10's and I have never met a single developer who actively works with Perl. Sometimes I wonder whether Perl left a huge code base behind, like COBOL did, but I suspect it didn't, mostly due to the fact that Perl is a dynamically typed language used mainly for web development and sysadmin scripting. Perl unlike Java, which had no serious alternative in its niche, unfortunately has an uncertain…
I started on Java, PHP, C++ and during my php years i discovered Perl because we needed it at work for systems. I just love it.