in reply to Re: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!
in thread Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!
I think that it is “not quite fair,” shall we very-agreeably say, to criticize a language for not being what it isn’t, when what it is is so darned important for so many people. When a language has been around for as long as Perl has, 100% compatibility with existing code-bases frankly becomes more important than most other considerations. This is what pays the freight. The true “warts” of a language, I think, fall out of favor on their own stink.
Now, in the course of a work-week I do find myself shifting between languages like shifting between hats. But Perl remains for me a known quantity: it is a beefy power-tool that won’t let me down. It is very hard to earn a positive reputation if you are a programming language ... let alone keep it for however-many years running. The many teams who have worked on Perl (and who have built notable CPAN packages) richly deserve full acknowledgment for their masterpiece. Warts and all.
And I am sure that I will one day say the same thing about Perl-6 ... warts and all.
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Re^3: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2011 at 07:09 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 13, 2011 at 09:34 UTC | |
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2011 at 18:45 UTC |