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.

  • @[email protected]
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    -11 year ago

    Your code won’t be indented properly, same problem as Python unless you have a formatting tool in your setup.

    • El Barto
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      1 year ago

      It won’t matter. It will still compile correctly every time, as opposed to python, and that’s my point. Choice. Choice is the key here.

      • @tsz
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        11 year ago

        Python isn’t (generally) compiled. Have you used python before?

        • El Barto
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          11 year ago

          I know Python is interpreted, but regardless, my point still stands. Just replace compile with run correctly.