Why I Use Perl: Reliability

Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by TylerE on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @02:26PM (#4044086)

I would posit that you are in the Top 5%. Can you imagine your average PHP web dev trying to grok monads? In the at-times echo chamber around here it's easy to forget just how many people make a living righting VBScript macros, Java, or Cold Fusion, or whatever non-sexy language you want to name.

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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by jasomill on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:18PM (#4044932)

"Cargo cult" programmers don't grok strong typing or lexical scoping either, but that's not a good argument for a weakly typed, dynamically scoped language.

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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by papsosouid on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @03:16PM (#4044349)

>Can you imagine your average PHP web dev trying to grok monads

Your average PHP web dev is not the cutoff for the 95th percentile. But yes, I can imagine them trying to understand monads. I have also observed them succeeding at understanding monads. They aren't hard to learn, just something you need to learn. Being able to learn simple things doesn't make you the top 5%.

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