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Perl still relevant in 2023/24? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has never been an issue for me in 20 years. If you move code, you cut a whole paragraph, paste, and indent appropriately.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I move code in non-python code, I cut a whole paragraph, paste, and I'm done if that's all I wanted to do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your code won't be indented properly, same problem as Python unless you have a formatting tool in your setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It won't matter. It will still compile correctly every time, as opposed to python, and that's my point. Choice. Choice is the key here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Python isn't (generally) compiled. Have you used python before?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I know Python is interpreted, but regardless, my point still stands. Just replace compile with run correctly.