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diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi index 5719847c..d8675612 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi @@ -2,8 +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 - 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: @@ -17,6 +15,17 @@ 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 + +## Table of Contents + +* ⇢ Perl is still a great choice +* ⇢ ⇢ Write-only language +* ⇢ ⇢ Is Perl abandoned? +* ⇢ ⇢ Why use Perl as there are better alternatives? +* ⇢ ⇢ Why all the sigils? It looks like an exploding ASCII factory!! +* ⇢ ⇢ Where do I personally still use perl? + ## 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. @@ -138,9 +147,9 @@ E-Mail your comments to `paul@nospam.buetow.org` :-) Other related posts are: -=> ./2008-06-26-perl-poetry.gmi 2008-06-26 Perl Poetry -=> ./2011-05-07-perl-daemon-service-framework.gmi 2011-05-07 Perl Daemon (Service Framework) -=> ./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi 2022-05-27 Perl is still a great choice (You are currently reading this) => ./2023-05-01-unveiling-guprecords:-uptime-records-with-raku.gmi 2023-05-01 Unveiling `guprecords.raku`: Global Uptime Records with Raku +=> ./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi 2022-05-27 Perl is still a great choice (You are currently reading this) +=> ./2011-05-07-perl-daemon-service-framework.gmi 2011-05-07 Perl Daemon (Service Framework) +=> ./2008-06-26-perl-poetry.gmi 2008-06-26 Perl Poetry => ../ Back to the main site |