The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by steveklabnik on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:50PM (#28935385)

I have a tattoo of a Perl camel, and of a Ruby ruby. I loved Perl, but to me anyway, Ruby was 95% of the good stuff of Perl, with 5% of the downsides. Some of that last 5% of good stuff was things that you could even argue isn't actually good stuff, but I like it anyway. ($_ is my go-to example for this.)

"Why not {Ruby,Python,PHP,JavaScript}?" is imho the question that Perl has to answer, and hasn't found one that enough folks find compelling, it seems.

This thread is making me so nostalgic... it's hard to overstate how influential Perl was on me.

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by Tanjreeve on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:51AM (#28941581)

Do you have any other programming language related tattoos of so that people know those are going to die too?

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by steveklabnik on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:06PM (#28949430)

I do not currently. Not sure Ruby is dead yet though...

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by petre on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:36AM (#28944123)

I'd definiely switch to Roby anytime now that it's also faster, post 2.5. But our codebase is written in Perl 5. Why now Perl 6/Raku? Because it's slow and also has a smaller community around it.

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by munificent on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:43PM (#28948150)

What's the status of your Rust crab tattoo?

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by steveklabnik on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:05PM (#28949419)

I've been joking that I only get tattoos of languages I don't really use anymore.

Also that "RUST CRAB" would fit on my knuckles...

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