Re:Why Perl?
by brider on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:07PM
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Honestly, I am completely unsure why we are discussing this article, or why it showed up in a place like HN. It is clearly based on shutterstock's agenda in acquiring perl developers.
I coded perl full-time for a year, straight up, for 10+ hours a day -- using it as the glue to hold a rudimentary distributed system together.
To show that I myself am not biased, I will admit Perl has a lot of nice things, but it also has a lot of undesirable things. This article only concentrates on the former (and doesn't even focus on what could arguably be the right nice things to speak of).
I coded perl full-time for a year, straight up, for 10+ hours a day -- using it as the glue to hold a rudimentary distributed system together.
To show that I myself am not biased, I will admit Perl has a lot of nice things, but it also has a lot of undesirable things. This article only concentrates on the former (and doesn't even focus on what could arguably be the right nice things to speak of).