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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the There’s-more-than-one-way-to-do-it,-but-sometimes-consistency-is-not-a-bad-thing-either dept.

Ruth Holloway at Red Hat's marketing site, OpenSource.com, has a retrospective on three decades of perl covering some history and a few of the top user groups. The powerful and flexible scripting language perl turns 30 at the end of this year. It is a practical extraction and reporting language widely used even today and has a dedicated community. It's ease of use and power made it the go-to tool through the boom of the 90's and 00's when the WWW was growing exponentially. However, its flexible syntax, while often an advantage, also functions as a sort of Rorschach test. One that some programmers fail. Perhaps two of its main strengths are pattern matching and CPAN. The many, mature perl modules available from CPAN make it a first choice for many when needed to draft something quickly or deal with a quick task.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:29AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:29AM (#580947) Journal

    But look at today: the web and programming languages are drastically different, and Perl no longer holds an advantage.

    On the other side, a late(r) newcomer [php.net] (PHP/FI - 1994) managed to evolve.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by fyngyrz on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:25PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:25PM (#581137) Journal

    On the other side, a late(r) newcomer (PHP/FI - 1994) managed to evolveinfect.

    FTFY.