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Re: Interview with Larry Wall

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Post by mirchibajji » Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

zenlot wrote: post #47

"Which large companies are still using Perl in production? I can name Booking.com, but do you know any others?" - it's worth mentioning DuckDuckGo of course, which is quite young and chosen Perl as a way to go.

Yahoo's infrastructure - Packaging, deployment, configuration management, monitoring etc. - was all Perl about a year ago when I was there, and most likely still is. The recommended tech stack was: Java for large applications, Perl for smaller ones, and any kind of scripting. In other words, any library that accesses infrastructure would be available as a Perl Module. To me, it was interesting to see the same developers diligent about unit tests etc. when dealing with Java code don't exercise the same level of discipline when it comes to Perl.

Re: Interview with Larry Wall

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Post by Mithaldu » Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 11:29 AM UTC

Diederich wrote: post #89

Mithaldu wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The data is obvious online, in that many many people have to be explained that they're different languages, with a good part of those also stating that they gave up on Perl 5 since "Perl 6 is coming"; as well as in direct talks with companies as early as 5+ years ago already when many german companies told me they're delaying further investments in Perl 5, since "Perl 6 is coming".

Thank you. I don't doubt that Perl6 has had some negative impact on Perl5. However, I and many others believe that Perl6's positive influences on the Perl5 community far outweigh the downsides. For starters, the whole Moose:: ecosystem ( https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual... ) would arguably not have existed were it not for Perl6. And there are quite a few other examples. Perl5 is a vibrant,…

Perl 6 has done many good things to Perl 5, yes.

However the name being what it is has hurt Perl 5, and that was the topic being discussed here.

Re: Interview with Larry Wall

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Post by Diederich » Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 12:55 PM UTC

Mithaldu wrote: post #92

Diederich wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I don't doubt that Perl6 has had some negative impact on Perl5. However, I and many others believe that Perl6's positive influences on the Perl5 community far outweigh the downsides. For starters, the whole Moose:: ecosystem ( https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual... ) would arguably not have existed were it not for Perl6. And there are quite a few other examples. Perl5 is a vibrant,…

Perl 6 has done many good things to Perl 5, yes. However the name being what it is has hurt Perl 5, and that was the topic being discussed here.

Understood, thank you.