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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2024-08-26 23:07:44 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2024-08-26 23:07:44 +0300 |
| commit | fa3426b5d9ac9eeccaea3aa7e4eb44e1fa2eab65 (patch) | |
| tree | f391aa531e8837ffe3ef0601d2a3aa8135c9fcca /gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi.tpl | |
| parent | 87d2c5cdd30fbed688eeac23e173398e95edda10 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi.tpl b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi.tpl index 890de11c..6ab585fd 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi.tpl +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi.tpl @@ -2,12 +2,6 @@ > Published at 2022-05-27T07:50:12+01:00; Updated at 2023-01-28 -=> ./perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png Comic source: XKCD - -<< template::inline::toc - -## Introduction - Perl (the Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a battle-tested, mature, multi-paradigm dynamic programming language. Note that it's not called PERL, neither P.E.R.L. nor Pearl. "Perl" is the name of the language and `perl` the name of the interpreter or the interpreter command. Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the last years as Google trends shows: @@ -21,6 +15,10 @@ So why is that? Once the de-facto standard super-glue language for the web nowad * Why use Perl as there are better alternatives? * Why all the sigils? It looks like an exploding ASCII factory!! +=> ./perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png Comic source: XKCD + +<< template::inline::toc + ## Write-only language Is Perl really a write-only language? You have to understand that Perl 5 was released in 1994 (28 years ago as of this writing) and when we refer to Perl we usually mean Perl 5. That's many years, and there are many old scripts not following the modern Perl best practices (as they didn't exist yet). So yes, legacy scripts may be difficult to read. Japanese may be difficult to read too if you don't know Japanese, though. |