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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by tgflynn on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:05AM (#22290266)
> I know people who have build hugely complex production systems in perl that are still running today 20 years later.

Sure, but there aren't many programmers who would want to maintain such a system.

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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by klyrs on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:19AM (#22290417)
Perl's just another language I've known. Maintaining a 20yo codebase in a language that people find distasteful sounds like comfortable job security, to me.
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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by fludlight on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:15PM (#22291651)
Most programmers want to build new things, not work on maintenance projects, regardless of tech stack.

That said, many people do enjoy that sort of work and finding them is not unusually difficult unless the project is so big that you need dozens of bodies.

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