Re^3: Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing

[Anonymous Monk]

And how do you plan to convince people to repeatedly rewrite a piece of code that works fine in Python to Perl?

Unless a Person is Perl fan, the moment he sees Python looking for cleaner and getting the job done. He will switch to Python.

[Your Mother]

I sort of explained why. This is a situation where there is an expertise in Perl already and none in Python. You have a chance to do it better, using the original as a prototype. And you still have the huge eco-system of Perl supporting you. Plack is the ideal example of this. Another is KinoSearch, a rewrite of Java’s Lucene which outperforms it in several metrics and is having some elements of its design back ported to Java because they are so good.

The attitude that it’s already done so why bother, is a losing proposition and not just in software. For example, Assembly can solve every software problem, we shouldn’t create new languages. Soap and good diet can prevent most disease, we shouldn’t worry about medical research.