Re: Stackoverflow blog: Why Perl is still relevant in 2022

in reply to Stackoverflow blog: Why Perl is still relevant in 2022

There is a new blog post on SO, this time concentrating on the growth of perl as a language and how to deal with new features:
This is not your grandfathers perl

CGI not mentioned once :) I guess someone saw the reactions to the other blog post here and thought to remedy the situation...

regards,
tomte

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus

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Re^2: Stackoverflow blog: Why Perl is still relevant in 2022 by jdporter (Chancellor) on Sep 13, 2022 at 11:50 UTC
tbf, that's horribly underwhelming. I read that and think, sarcastically: "WOW, Perl sure has come a long way! It's hardly recognizable! It's really going to give Python some serious competition now!" `say()`? Really? This is how we're going to win converts? This is how we're going to convince people that Perl is a 21st-century language? I'm not saying Perl hasn't come a long way. I'm saying that article doesn't give the impression that it has, contrary to the author's implied promise. As such, it actually works against Perl, as it solidifies in peoples' minds the fact that Perl is a has-been language. "This is what the Perl community get excited about?"	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Stackoverflow blog: Why Perl is still relevant in 2022
by jdporter (Chancellor) on Sep 13, 2022 at 11:50 UTC

tbf, that's horribly underwhelming. I read that and think, sarcastically: "WOW, Perl sure has come a long way! It's hardly recognizable! It's really going to give Python some serious competition now!"

say()? Really? This is how we're going to win converts? This is how we're going to convince people that Perl is a 21st-century language?

I'm not saying Perl hasn't come a long way. I'm saying that article doesn't give the impression that it has, contrary to the author's implied promise. As such, it actually works against Perl, as it solidifies in peoples' minds the fact that Perl is a has-been language. "This is what the Perl community get excited about?"

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