"However, I've been seeing a lot of negative stuff spread against Perl and could never figure out why."

Because most people are ignorant, and have contempt prior to investigation. These people have no critical thinking ability whatsoever.

The vast majority of people who put Perl down are people who have never written a single line of Perl code in their life, or who tried to write a line of Perl, but have attention spans as short as my pinky finger. They are simply "me too" folks, jumping on the latest fad bandwagon, just to watch them jump off to join the next one that rolls through town, all the while bashing anything the other folks who are on the latest bandwagon bash. It's called attention whoring.

I give it no thought whatsoever.

PS. I gave up on all social media five years ago, and LinkedIn was the last to go sometime last year after I realized it had devolved into not much more than Facebook, so unless you re-post your article here, I won't be reading it. Besides... I've been involved in Perl for 20 years with more than 50 published Perl distributions, so I need absolutely no convincing about the flexibility, efficacy, simplicity, efficiency and joys of the Perl language, and its core community.

In reply to Re: My First LinkedIn Article On Perl by stevieb
in thread My First LinkedIn Article On Perl by pritesh_ugrankar

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