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Yep, I like to compare Perl to an old song "I'm every woman it's all in me".²

It combines most aspects of bash, lisp and C.*

Unfortunately it's° badly managed, in the early 2000 it should have invaded the ecosystem of Bash and respond to the DSL needs of Ruby folks and incorporate a fast OOP system a la Moo

That's probably the downside of having a very tolerant user base and giving a say to everyone.

Pythonistas are in my experience not that tolerant, I had numerous encounters where they kept mobbing other languages and in the end it turned out I even knew their "own" language better.

Cheers Rolf
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*) and heavily influenced other now main stream languages like PHP, JS and Ruby. Especially the latter is mostly Perl with "nicer" syntax and OO system.

Roughly Ruby := Perl - Bash + Smalltalk

°) in retrospective

²) Chaka not Whitney


In reply to Re^3: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by LanX
in thread Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Crosis

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