On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, 18:31 Oğuz, <oguzismailuy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, June 28, 2024, Martin D Kealey <mar...@kurahaupo.gen.nz> wrote: > >> modern Perl scripts >> > > No such thing. >
For the purpose of this argument, "modern" means anything written in the last 25 years, targeting Perl 5 rather than Perl 4. Perl is a dead language, > Whether you think Perl is dead, or indeed whether Perl is actually dead, doesn't affect the validity of my point: it's a historical precedent demonstrating that it's possible and practical to get rid of insane behaviour from a language. and for good reason. > If "good reasons" were actually sufficient to kill off a language, the shell would have died before 2000, and PHP would have been stillborn. Even the things that Perl did wrong could help guide us in better directions. -Martin PS: Some folk think Perl is "hard" and/or "ugly" because it doesn't look like languages they're used to. Guess what: that applies to all languages. Try reading MATLAB or LISP or Prolog or PostScript or YACC. Or Thai or Cherokee or Tok Pisin. Some folk hate Perl's sigles because they hate punctuation generally. (But then I don't know why they would tolerate the shell, much less like it.) Some folk hate that Perl has more than one way to do any given task. Some folk love Perl for exactly that reason. Mostly, younger folk have been told that "Perl is dead and for good reason", so they avoid it without even trying to make their own assessment. Perl has moved on a long way since 1995. By contrast the Shell has stagnated, yet it has moved just enough not to have the benefit of stability. >
