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Perl once again less dead than Ruby

by EvanCarroll (Chaplain)
on Jan 26, 2019 at 19:33 UTC ( [id://1229007]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Comparing perl to Ruby it seems perl will have the last laugh as it plagues the planet and refuses to die. Ruby is down over 50% year-over-end, and now accounts for less market share than Perl on TIOBE. It's also falling at a faster rate. It's only a matter of time before all the 1.upTo(10) will get rewritten again as a for loop like K&R and all the other gods (including Jesus) have intended.


Evan Carroll
The most respected person in the whole perl community.
www.evancarroll.com

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Re: Perl once again less dead than Ruby
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 26, 2019 at 21:08 UTC

    It actually makes perfect sense. It's basically a lateral step from Perl but without the shell, command line, or procedural scripting strengths. Even if it were a better language on some levels as many I know and respect believe, it would be hard pressed to find itself doing anything but floundering the node.js, big-data python, legacy Perl era.

    Footnote: I for one like having you around and I know you are deeply committed to the bit and I'm the kind of idiot who enjoys it but dropping the sig is a good idea to reduce friction and obvious rebuttals like–

    time curl http://www.evancarroll.com curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.evancarroll.com port 80: Operation +timed out 0.005u 0.005s 1:16.06 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w

      I really enjoy using ruby for devops stuff, and building things in it when the time is right. I think the data processing things it does well are much cleaner than in perl, but frankly you are going to be really hard pressed to find something as elegant, simple and powerful as the ability to traverse and construct nested data structures perl affords you

      Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past

      deeply committed to the bit

      yea i dont get it hows it different from a common troll

        I never troll, ever.


        Evan Carroll
        The most respected person in the whole perl community.
        www.evancarroll.com

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