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authorPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2022-12-10 13:08:53 +0200
committerPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2022-12-10 13:08:53 +0200
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</head>
<body>
<h1>Perl is still a great choice</h1>
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<p class="quote"><i>Published by Paul at 2022-05-27, last updated at 2022-12-10 Comic source: XKCD</i></p>
+=======
+<p class="quote"><i>Published by Paul at 2022-05-27 09:50:12 GMT, Comic source: XKCD</i></p>
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<a href="./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png"><img src="./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png" /></a><br />
<p>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 <span class="inlinecode">perl</span> the name of the interpreter or the interpreter command.</p>
<p>Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the last years as Google trends shows:</p>
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<a class="textlink" href="https://www.OpenBSD.org">The OpenBSD Operating System</a><br />
<a class="textlink" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23360338">Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?</a><br />
<p>The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas <span class="inlinecode">use strict;</span>, <span class="inlinecode">use warnings;</span>, <span class="inlinecode">use signatures;</span> and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) reputation.</p>
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<p class="quote"><i>Update 2022-12-10: A reader pointed out, that <span class="inlinecode">use v5.36;</span> already turns strict, warnings and signatures pragmas automatically on! </i></p>
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+>>>>>>> 344c44a6a40e8e5a3073cc1cb3f3a64627188c73
<a class="textlink" href="https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/">Announcing Perl 7</a><br />
<a class="textlink" href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html">What happened to Perl 7? (maybe have to use <span class="inlinecode">use v7;</span>)</a><br />
<p class="quote"><i>Update 2022-12-10: A reader pointed out, that Perl 7 needs to provide a big improvement to earn and keep the attention for a major version bump.</i></p>
diff --git a/gemfeed/atom.xml b/gemfeed/atom.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
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<updated>2022-12-10T13:06:19+02:00</updated>
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<title>foo.zone feed</title>
<subtitle>To be in the .zone!</subtitle>
<link href="https://foo.zone/gemfeed/atom.xml" rel="self" />
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<content type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<h1>Perl is still a great choice</h1>
+<<<<<<< HEAD
<p class="quote"><i>Published by Paul at 2022-05-27, last updated at 2022-12-10 Comic source: XKCD</i></p>
+=======
+<p class="quote"><i>Published by Paul at 2022-05-27 09:50:12 GMT, Comic source: XKCD</i></p>
+>>>>>>> 344c44a6a40e8e5a3073cc1cb3f3a64627188c73
<a href="https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png"><img src="https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png" /></a><br />
<p>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 <span class="inlinecode">perl</span> the name of the interpreter or the interpreter command.</p>
<p>Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the last years as Google trends shows:</p>
@@ -1501,7 +1509,10 @@ v = 008 [v = p*c*(s != c ? 2 : 1)] Total logical CPUs
<a class="textlink" href="https://www.OpenBSD.org">The OpenBSD Operating System</a><br />
<a class="textlink" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23360338">Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?</a><br />
<p>The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas <span class="inlinecode">use strict;</span>, <span class="inlinecode">use warnings;</span>, <span class="inlinecode">use signatures;</span> and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) reputation.</p>
+<<<<<<< HEAD
<p class="quote"><i>Update 2022-12-10: A reader pointed out, that <span class="inlinecode">use v5.36;</span> already turns strict, warnings and signatures pragmas automatically on! </i></p>
+=======
+>>>>>>> 344c44a6a40e8e5a3073cc1cb3f3a64627188c73
<a class="textlink" href="https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/">Announcing Perl 7</a><br />
<a class="textlink" href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html">What happened to Perl 7? (maybe have to use <span class="inlinecode">use v7;</span>)</a><br />
<p class="quote"><i>Update 2022-12-10: A reader pointed out, that Perl 7 needs to provide a big improvement to earn and keep the attention for a major version bump.</i></p>