Re: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!

Perl is very much a niche language.

It may seem like an easy language to learn, but it is the hardest language to master. Perl's philosophy of 'There's more than one way to do it' can be a serious problem. If there are n number of ways to do something, it means you have to know all n number of ways because you do not know what 'way' another programmer may employ.

I am guessing the average programmer gives up on Perl.

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Re^2: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?! by Jenda (Abbot) on Feb 25, 2013 at 11:26 UTC
In natural languages, there are two kinds of vocabularies. Active and passive one. Active is that you('d) use yourself, passive is what you can understand. The later is usually much bigger and much easier to extend. Guess what, the same thing works with Perl. You do not have to actively use all the ways, at most you have to understand the most common ones. Besides once you get above the syntactic level there are more than one ways in any language. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]
Re^2: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?! by Anonymous Monk on Feb 25, 2013 at 05:17 UTC
Perl is very much a niche language. Sure, thats why they call it a glue-language or swiss-army-chainsaw, because it is only useful for small "niche" applications	[reply]
Re^2: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?! by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2013 at 19:43 UTC
Perl got all the attention because of CGI and no alternatives were there. That was just a temporary phase. Now perl has gone back to being perl. Perl is not for the average programmer. The perl community prides itself in its motto, 'there is more than one way to do it'. That actually is the problem for the average programmer.	[reply]