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Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org by empath75 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:42PM (#17130661)
If someone is being paid to modernize a perl app, they almost certainly are intended to rewrite it in another language entirely.
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Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org by psergeant on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @11:09PM (#17131236)
No, that’s just bullshit. It’s very easy to write Modern Perl, and most companies with large Perl codebases break their codebases into service based architectures and then rewrite them bit by bit.
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Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org by justinator on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:21PM (#17135975)
This was my thought, as well.
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