in reply to Perl once again less dead than Ruby

It actually makes perfect sense. It's basically a lateral step from Perl but without the shell, command line, or procedural scripting strengths. Even if it were a better language on some levels as many I know and respect believe, it would be hard pressed to find itself doing anything but floundering the node.js, big-data python, legacy Perl era.

Footnote: I for one like having you around and I know you are deeply committed to the bit and I'm the kind of idiot who enjoys it but dropping the sig is a good idea to reduce friction and obvious rebuttals like– 

time curl http://www.evancarroll.com
curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.evancarroll.com port 80: Operation 
+timed out
0.005u 0.005s 1:16.06 0.0%    0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w

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Re^2: Perl once again less dead than Ruby
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Jan 29, 2019 at 22:48 UTC

    I really enjoy using ruby for devops stuff, and building things in it when the time is right. I think the data processing things it does well are much cleaner than in perl, but frankly you are going to be really hard pressed to find something as elegant, simple and powerful as the ability to traverse and construct nested data structures perl affords you

    Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past

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Re^2: Perl once again less dead than Ruby
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 26, 2019 at 22:30 UTC
    deeply committed to the bit

    yea i dont get it hows it different from a common troll

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      I never troll, ever.


      Evan Carroll
      The most respected person in the whole perl community.
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