On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 06:57:02AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: > As one of the few remaining people out there who considers perl to be > their favorite language—starting to wonder if it’s just me and Larry > Wall at this point—I’d like to say that perl should stay in base on > its merits, all the perl-based system tools notwithstanding.
one of the few remaining people ? is it so ? i really wonder ... Perl bashing is around the IT crowd for 20 decades and yet, when i compare with other dynamic langages: * perl is the only one who gives me the conciseness and spirit of unix tools combined to the power of a dynamic langage (the only close one is ruby, the next level is raku, the others look like jokes to me). so as openbsd people seems to be confortable with this unix culture, i'm inclined to think that perl is popular here. * CPAN is the best ecosystem to share code (metacpan is just awesome compared to the other package sites, tooling is very good as well) * the popularity of perl around me don't reflect the "perl is dead" moto we heard since so many years (yes: there is a decline but it's in flavor of compiled langages. the only one who switched to python made this choice for money reason) both perl and openbsd popularities are underestimated just because they still prefer mailing lists over stackoverflow (or other web services who try to buzz with some charts) and don't care that much about marketing. but still: i will be curious to know the perl popularity in the openbsd community. regards. marc
