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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.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 12 2017, @07:16PM (1 child)
The last I read about it, the copyright was due to expire soon.
I don't know what they've done about it, but I expect that a new test was made, with different blots.
One could calibrate it by using other tests such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday October 13 2017, @10:13AM
Which we can also expect to leak. That sort of thing is unlikely to remain secret in the Internet age.