Re^4: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018

Perl should have definitely trounced PHP. Oh well.

I have more respect for R but it still does things like polluting the global namespace with historical datasets and requiring third-party add-ons to have actual hash tables. Its greatest strength is having all these libraries that minimize contact with the terrible underlying language.

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Re^5: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by RonW (Parson) on Apr 16, 2018 at 22:53 UTC
Perl should have definitely trounced PHP. Oh well. From what I recall reading, years ago, it was because Perl trounced PHP that PHP took over the web. What I recall was that server operators were supposedly dealing with more problems caused by novice Perl programmers than by problems caused by PHP programmers. This lead them to decide that PHP's limitations were a benefit, not a liability. This then caused hosting providers to limit access to Perl by charging extra for it, or even just not allowing it's use.	[reply]
Re^6: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Crosis (Beadle) on Apr 23, 2018 at 06:54 UTC
What a terrible outcome. I wonder if people involved regret it.	[reply]