News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The Future of Perl by yoz-y on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:34AM (#26565847)
Do they have to enter the modern world and compete with the modern languages?

Personally, I’d like them to focus on shell scripting and tool making. (But that’s what I use Perl for, so of course I’d say that)

Re:The Future of Perl by b2gills on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:32PM (#26637601)
Ironically making it more modern may make things like shell scripting easier.

Let's say that Perl gets a real type system, and reflection capabilities.

Then I can see something like this come to exist:

    use v7;
    use GetOpt::MAIN;

    sub MAIN ( str $name, int $count ) {
      say $name for 1..$count
    }
Re:The Future of Perl by j4yav on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:22PM (#26571074)
They don’t have to, but it seems to be their stated goal.