Re:Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult?
by ccashell on Sunday November 20, 2011 @06:55PM
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Well said.
Sometimes a new tool will come along that truly is a huge improvement on previous tools. But, when those previous tools are "classics", it's pretty rare that the "new" tool is truly that much of an improvement.
There's a reason that these things (bash, sed, awk, perl, SQL, Unix/Linux, etc) are still popular and still going. It's because they're time tested, they're well known, and they work.
Re:Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult?
by draegtun on Friday November 18, 2011 @03:35AM
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Totally agree.
While it's good to always review your tools & skills... spending lots of time looking at sparkling new things could be better focused on i) getting work done or ii) improving your proficiency with current tools :)
But every now and then you will see <insert some new tool> being compared with a <insert classic tool>. And then told since the <insert some new tool> is a little famous now, its likely to replace the <insert classic tool> and that <quote some irrelevant search engine statistic> actually proves <insert classic tool> is dead and <insert some new tool> is actually going to replace the <insert classic tool> in the future.
Then suddenly expect a stream of tweets, blog posts and forum discussions on how useless <insert classic tool is>.
Please replace <insert classic tool> by "Perl","SQL","Php".
Please replace <insert some new tool> by "Python","Ruby","Tcl","NoSQL","Django"..
Please replace <quote some irrelevant search engine statistic> by Google search stats or Tiobe(Which is the same ,but presented differently metric).