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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by hiccuphippo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:10PM (#16760209)
Another stereotype? It could be Perl or Bash.
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by tyingq on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:11PM (#16760581)
Or Ruby, or TCL...
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by RbrtM on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:38PM (#16761338)
I didn't know that there are still people out there that program in Perl or Tcl??
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by tyingq on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:48PM (#16761361)
Booking.com is mostly Perl and doing gangbusters. Tcl is, for example, the lingua franca for F5 load balancers. I have more examples, but both are far from dead.
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by Cyph0n on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:27PM (#16761535)
Tcl is a household name in the field of EDA tool scripting.

Virtually all software tools designed by Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor include a Tcl REPL/console.

Any task performed in the GUI is actually executed in the REPL, making it easy to replicate a specific flow by just copy/pasting the commands displayed in the REPL into a Tcl script.

To load a script, you simply pass it as an argument when running the software.

Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by lizmat on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:54AM (#16773666)
There are. There's even a Perl 6 that is production ready: https://perl6.org
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by new_hackers on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:08PM (#16761205)
or PowerShell