[Wellington-pm] How much perl is out there?

Dale DuRose dale.durose at gmail.com
Sat May 29 18:46:13 PDT 2010


Whats the cool languages these days?

I've away just adapted to what the organization I'm working for is 
using. I dont really have any favorite language. I hate every language 
for its bad quirks. But i really hate python big time.



On 30/05/2010 1:30 p.m., Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Dale DuRose<dale.durose at gmail.com>  writes:
>    
>> On 30/05/2010 10:44 a.m., Cliff Pratt wrote:
>>      
>>> On 29/05/10 19:44, dale.durose wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I have a question is perl still being used commonly in the new
>>>> zealand IT industry? I know in the past it was used for most web
>>>> applications. So i imagine its holding strong with the system
>>>> administrators out there?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I'd be surprised if it were "used for most web applications". Something like
>>> PHP would be more likely used for that.
>>>
>>> We use it mostly for sysadmin stuff.
>>>        
>> About 10 years ago it was used for most web applications. Maybe even longer
>> than 10.
>>      
> Heh.  History.  You tell the kids today that Perl once had the reputation that
> PHP has, that it was used for all those awful throw-away one-shot CGI things
> that were the bane of security administrators lives, and they don't believe
> you.
>
> Back then we had to hand-code our requests out of CGI.pm, too, and it was
> up-hill both ways.
>
>          Daniel
>
> Seriously: Perl was, once, the king of CGI.  These days?  Big in a whole bunch
> of places, mostly by virtue of graduating from a "cool" language to a serious
> one.
>
> It joins FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, and other luminaries that are no longer the
> cool way to do exciting new things, but which get plenty of real work done.
>    



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