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.

  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      How is type information noise instead of a helpful feature?

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