Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > Le Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 02:36:51PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth. >> I'm personally a little surprised if it's true that younger people are >> unprepared to take a stab at hacking Perl. But since that's the case, we >> have deeply embedded, critical stuff written in Perl everywhere. "adequate" >> is but the tip of the iceberg. > > The actual perl problem is that, since perl is very strict about > backward compatibility, perl scripts written 10 or 20 years ago still > work without requiring maintainance, hence they may appear to be > abandonned.
Doesnt this assume that development is "finished"? I think the problem with perl is not the language (although it is harder to read than python, ruby, even shell) but that a lot* of the people who wrote those 10 or 20 year-old scripts are no longer responding to bugs or making changes. *not all, but it's only going one way
