Re:On the Decline of Perl – external factors
by marbu on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:20AM
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The issue with nested structures is a good point.
Another problem I noticed would be natural language like syntax sugar, which makes it harder to maintain your knowledge of the language if you don't use it regularly. I learned some perl long time ago during one project, and after I stopped working with the project, I also gradually stopped using perl for quick scripts, and settled on sed/grep/awk again for quick simple stuff, and python for the other tasks.
Another problem I noticed would be natural language like syntax sugar, which makes it harder to maintain your knowledge of the language if you don't use it regularly. I learned some perl long time ago during one project, and after I stopped working with the project, I also gradually stopped using perl for quick scripts, and settled on sed/grep/awk again for quick simple stuff, and python for the other tasks.