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.

  • Kazumara@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You mean the fact that you can have a hash called %foo, an array called @foo and a scalar called $foo all at the same time?

    Yes, exactly. Those definitions aren’t clashing, so they must have separate namespaces.

    it’s pretty easy to just not do that…

    I wouldn’t do that either, but my colleage apparently did. So far I’m having a harder time reading perl than writing it.