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Perl still relevant in 2023/24? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it's thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

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[–] elbarto777 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (34 children)

I wish python was not indentation aware. It has discouraged me from learning it.

Edit: downvoted by fanbois. Look, I'm not married to my tools.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish python was not indentation aware. It has discouraged me from learning it.

lol, then you just don't like Python. You can't disassociate the two things.

[–] elbarto777 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup, I don't like it because of it.

[–] tsz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You flat out haven't used it.

[–] elbarto777 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct. I don't think we're disagreeing. The language has one deal-breaker to me and that's all I need to know.

That's like saying "you won't be friends with Bob because he's likes to go to smoking-friendly places all the time and you don't? BUT YOU DON'T KNOW THE GUY!!!!!"

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