Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle
by wyclif on Sunday January 08, 2017 @06:55AM
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DuckDuckGo uses Perl a lot. So are many other startups. Isn't that evidence that it's making a comeback of sorts, since there was kind of a dead zone in new development between Perl's heyday and the newer, "Modern Perl" (i.e., Perl 5.2x) movement? http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/
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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle
by cutler on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:10PM
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Who are these "many other startups"? Last year's London Perl Workshop was largely populated by the usual suspects who've been there since the early 2000s. I didn't hear the word "startup" mentioned either in conversation or the literature.
Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle
by coldtea on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:12PM
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>DuckDuckGo uses Perl a lot.
That's hardly the proof of Perl making a comeback. If it was Google or Facebook or some major company or unicorn that might had a leg, but DuckDuckGo?
And while "many other startups" might use it, many other startups also use all kinds of languages that won't go anywhere.