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Perl still relevant in 2023/24? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by It0m@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] slinkyninja@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html

[–] drzow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

There’s an obfuscated C contest too - no one ever assumed that K&R opposed highly legible code. I seem to recall that Kerrigan actually wrote some books to the contrary.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

That's a non-argument, man. You just linked to a contest.

That's like saying that the FAA endorses unsafe airplane building practices because they hold a contest about unmanned cardboard made planes that fly the most length in a desert without crashing.