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Aristotle (5147)
Friday April 15, 2005
03:00 AM
Idle thought
A thought that just struck me after reading milardj ’s Whuffie in Action and thinking about Perl’s “whuffie” outside the Perl community, how that appears to depend on vocal people’s emoting, even though every organization beyond a threshold size seems to rely on the trusty workhorse that Perl is:
“Perl’s problem is that it appeals to clever people. Perl’s strength is that it appeals to smart people.”
And I’m not so young anymore as to count myself among the smart people…
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But will it be the workhorse in the future ... (Score:1)
When I moved to my second company perl wasn't used at all which is very surprising considering the code base was in the millions of LOC and a good portion of that was reports/extracts/loads. I promoted perl heavily from day one and after solving some internal requests with perl very
But will it be the workhorse in the future… (Score:1)
Oh, I know how that came to be. I also firmly believe that Perl, even as Perl5, will continue to be successful as a workhorse because it lends itself so well to small tasks. Only Ruby comes close; Python is not going to steal mindshare among those who frequently write very short, disposable code. Once you’re catching small fish with a tool that’s capable of hunting bigger ones, you’re likely to use it lots.
However, all of that really is tangential to the main point I was pondering, which