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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2022-12-10 13:16:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2022-12-10 13:16:09 +0200 |
| commit | 3b2167bf4efd9b30be2b0b8a9d15899c60ecdbea (patch) | |
| tree | 4f23ee2138a0e259c3774693e02ed32ef27a001f | |
| parent | 7be1a47ebc6284f35f7149ccd57f0f2e03a0bbcf (diff) | |
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diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md index 1382e6a2..bfabc2dd 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Perl is still a great choice -> Published by Paul at 2022-05-27, last updated at 2022-12-10 Comic source: XKCD +> Published by Paul at 2022-05-27, last updated at 2022-12-10, Comic source: XKCD [](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png) @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ As you can see, Perl 5 is under active development. Actually, Perl is a family o So it means that Perl and Raku now exist in parallel. They influence each other, but are different programming languages now. So why not just all use Raku instead of Perl? There are still a couple of reasons of why to choose Perl over Raku: * Many programmers already know Perl and many scripts are already written in Perl. It's possible to call Perl code from Raku (either inline or as a library) and it is also possible to auto-convert Perl code into Raku code, but that's either a workaround or involves some kind of additional work. -* Perl 5 comes with a great backwards compatibility. Perl scripts from 5.000 will generally still work on a recent version of Perl. New features usually have to be enabled via a so-called "use pragmas". For example, in order to enable sub signatures, "use signatures;" has to be specified. +* Perl 5 comes with a great backwards compatibility. Perl scripts from 5.000 will generally still work on a recent version of Perl. New features usually have to be enabled via a so-called "use pragmas". For example, in order to enable sub signatures, `use signatures;` has to be specified. * Perl is pre-installed almost everywhere. Fancy running a quick one-off script? In almost all cases, there's no need to install Perl first - it's already there on almost any Linux or *BSD or Unix or other Unix like operating system! * Perl has been ported to "zillions" of platforms. One day I found myself on a VMS box. Perl doesn't come installed by default on VMS, but the admin installed Perl there already. The whole operating system was very strange to me, but I was able to write "shell scripts" in Perl and became productive pretty quickly on VMS without knowing almost anything about VMS :-). * Perl is reliable. It has been proven itself "millions" of times, over and over again. Large enterprises, such as booking.com, heavily rely on Perl. Did you know that the package manager of the OpenBSD operating system is programmed in Perl, too? |