Re^2: Writing Popular Perl Software

It could have been written:

  The world uses Perl to:

And mean the same thing, in English. Why does the world "use" Perl for these things? Because they "need" these things and therefore Perl. So give them more of what they want and use and need! There's no dichotomy between cultivating the good and improving the less good. Perl has made itself essential to things like Debian, SQL and Google! Now the Python people need vital tools written in Perl that make their lives more bearable. Stuff like this:

2007
pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/fincore/

2008
www.percona.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-tool-ive-been-waiting-for-years/

2018
medium.com/searce/how-max-prepared-stmt-count-bring-down-the-production-mysql-system-6ca28e577663

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Re^3: Writing Popular Perl Software by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Oct 09, 2018 at 07:08 UTC
It could have been written: "The world uses Perl to:" And mean the same thing, in English. Not really, no. It's rather the opposite. Saying "X needs to Y" implies quite strongly that X does not currently do Y. In search of a concrete, real-world example, I just ran a search on "the world needs to" and my first hit is an article headlined "the world needs to store billions of tons of carbon". The actual article is, unfortunately, paywalled, so I can't readily read the full content, but I can pretty much guarantee you that the article isn't talking about how wonderful it is that billions of tons of carbon are being stored successfully and effectively.	[reply]
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