<html><head></head><body>I started using Perl around '91 after hearing many raves a year or two earlier from coworkers. I still use it regularly and have written several systems of over 10,000 lines, which would not have been reasonable without OO Perl. We have used Perl at my current team because we felt it was the fastest way to write the code.<br>
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I have been chastised from SPUG members and management for using Perl for more than a scripting language. I agree that there are maddening things about the language that I wish weren't there, particularly involving support of stronger typed variables (better) and named procedure parameters (better). I wish I had access to better debugging tools (suggestions?) and that I would take the time to learn how to use a good Perl IDE (suggestions?)<br>
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I plan to port a lot of my applications and libraries to Java, which should be mostly straight forward. This would mainly be so that we could get better staff support, and to have my libraries available to our Web systems that happen to be written on Java. <br>
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So, I think Perl is a good language. Perl 6 is better, but seems to have lost steam. I may have to move to Python or all Java in the future, however.<br>
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-- Daniel Pommert <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 7, 2016 7:56:16 AM PDT, Kevin Esteb <kesteb@wsipc.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I write Perl code every day. It's part of the infrastructure. Nobody gets excited about infrastructure, unless it doesn't work. Perl just works.<br /><br /><br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: spug-list [mailto:spug-list-bounces+kesteb=<a href="http://wsipc.org">wsipc.org</a>@pm.org] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake<br />Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 5:52 AM<br />To: Chris Nandor; Patrick Feliciano<br />Cc: SPUG Members<br />Subject: Re: SPUG: Knock Knock<br /><br />On 07/07/2016 05:00 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I've never stopped using Perl as my primary language ...</blockquote><br /><br />Yes but the idea of "revival" assumes lots of new people are using the language, which is not true (compared to others growth).<br /><br />JD<br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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