Re^2: Something to meditate on -- the need for a trendy perl?

I was a university teacher for several years. I quit half a year ago. I used Perl in my research, and I taught it to my students. The reason why my colleagues were shifting (mostly to Python) was different: laziness. They needed libraries for machine learning, and they already existed in Python. Maybe we, the community, are not working hard enough to keep Perl "trendy", whatever it might mean?

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Re^3: Something to meditate on -- the need for a trendy perl? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 12, 2014 at 14:07 UTC
IMHO academics prefer axiomatic systems where a limited set of rules can be applied to derive the rest. Your colleagues can be lazy b/c other academics prepared the modules. Maybe I don't know Python enough to tell, but it has this appeal ... while Perl is a pile of DWIM magic exceptions, which are fun for experienced coders who don't wanna miss their features from other languages (bash, sed, awk, c, lisp, ...) but do confuse many Asperger folks who only accept "one way to do it". Ruby OTOH shows that it is possible to transport rich semantics into a more orthogonal syntax, by breaking compatibility to Perl5. Should be noted that P5 never really broke compatibility to P4, thus giving it an incredible amount of obscure features and exception rules. Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]
Re^3: Something to meditate on -- the need for a trendy perl? by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 11, 2014 at 18:03 UTC
I thought laziness was one of the virtues of Perl? :-) The three virtues of Perl I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]