Damian Conway on Perl and its future

Re:Damian Conway on Perl and its future by loewenskind on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @04:02AM (#1379786)

This is exactly why perl is moving out of the big orgs (at least everyone I've worked at in the last 5 years, and I'm a contractor). Getting anything on a production system is a hastle. Using a language like python that just has most everything out of the box is much easier than something like perl where I need to make a hundred different requests to be able to do any big project.

EDIT: And your CD suggestion is a good way to get sacked.

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Re:Damian Conway on Perl and its future by draegtun on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @04:28AM (#1379820)

I see and think the complete opposite on this (and I'm also a contractor).

Like a lot of things in working life it depends on where you're coming from and where you are but I find Perl much easier to maintain across multiple servers because of CPAN (especially by using internal mirrors... for eg. minicpan) than with some other languages.

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