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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by BeetleB on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:06AM (#16214102)
On the flip side, being forced to use Perl always sucks.

I mean it only as a half joke, unfortunately.

Re:Perl 6 Optimism by vgy7ujm on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:37AM (#16214348)
I would love to be forced to use Perl :)

As a side note, "forced" often means "we have a lot of beginners here and they want to do Python".

Re:Perl 6 Optimism by askvictor on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:16PM (#16217222)
Find a job maintaining some legacy code (there's plenty of it there). At which point you'll quickly realise that maintaining a complex perl program (particularly that someone else wrote) is painful. And the only remaining production perl programs are complex or they would have been rewritten.
Re:Perl 6 Optimism by vgy7ujm on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:01AM (#16221350)
I would not mind actually.

Better than rewriting failing Python or Node projects once a year.