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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by chris1993 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:06PM (#28937403)
I think that describes Perl v7 pretty well.
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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by benbristow on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:53AM (#28943693)
It describes other Perl-like languages like Python, Ruby and PHP pretty well too.

Why would I want to go back to Perl when I could use a language that’s more popular and well-established now?

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