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.

  • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Perl is nice. I doubt anybody uses it to create new projects though, and if they do I’d doubt their sanity. Learn it if you want to maintain old, illegible code.

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      The illegible code claim has always baffled me.

      You can write perfectly legible code in perl. You can write illegible code in python if you really want to.