The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by forgotpwd16 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:18PM (#28934920)

>Many of us went over to PHP which is vibrant, keeps getting faster and better and is as practical as Perl was and hasn’t stalled.

Funny as, quite similar to Perl, it took about a decade for a new major version (v. 7) and in the meantime there was a failed experiment (v. 6). And, quite similar to Perl, people were saying PHP is a dying language only alive thanks to some old major projects (WordPress, ...) that are written in it. Moreover, exactly like this very blog post, there were articles written saying that PHP is not dead.

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by xav0989 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:53PM (#28935437)

You also had facebook pumping resources into PHP with HPHPc, HHVM, trying to compile a spec, etc.

That definitely would have helped keep PHP alive through the period between PHP 5 and PHP 7.

Additionally, PHP's releases of 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 introduced enough new functionality that the bump was more than incremental. It had backwards-breaking changes, which should have warranted a new major release if PHP followed semver.

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by tkinom on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:49PM (#28936336)

Old Programming Languages never die, they just fade away.

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