I've generally stayed out of these "perl is dying" threads because I see it as a troll. Sure Perl5 is dying, but we are all dying.... so what? Should your boss fire you because he knows you are dying? You might counter with,,, "yeah but it's still 50 years away", and I'm still very useful right now. What counts is what can you do while you are still alive.

Perl5 is still very much alive, and will die eventually and reincarnate as Perl6..... then we will all have that youthful zest and the belief that it will all go on forever.... but even Perl6 will die one day.

Maybe its just my take on it, but it seems that most of the criticism of Perl5 is that it is too difficult to easily produce high-performance web applications. To me, the web is just a sideshow. Plain old Perl5, with maybe FastCGI, is good enough for almost all the web work out there. If you need more speed, it's cheaper to add more hardware, than it is to learn another language.

As far as "corporate acceptance" goes, thats a crock of crap. From what I've seen, corporations are interested in one thing.... making it cheaper, not neccessarily better. So if Java, Net, and Ruby on Rails can make these homogenized web pages cheaper, allowing them to reduce their staff sizes( or outsource), that's their business. but I'm not giving up my favorite tool because of that.

So the next time you lament the lack of programming jobs, and the increasingly homogenous look-and-feel of the web, just remember.... you asked for it....it's the efficient economical Solution.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

In reply to Re: Perl needs The Solution by zentara
in thread Perl needs The Solution by jimt

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