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Perl still relevant in 2023/24? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by It0m@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it's thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

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[–] SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Perl is nice. I doubt anybody uses it to create new projects though, and if they do I'd doubt their sanity. Learn it if you want to maintain old, illegible code.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The illegible code claim has always baffled me.

You can write perfectly legible code in perl. You can write illegible code in python if you really want to.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The variable prefixes make it easy in Perl to write line noise, and there are much more "magical defaults".

What's the most illegible code you have found in Python?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How is type information noise instead of a helpful feature?

I haven't looked for illegible Python code out there.

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