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The State of Perl

posted by pudge on 2004.01.15 15:02   

Mr. Muskrat writes "Adam Turoff has an article entitled 'The State of Perl.' In it he answers the question, 'Does Perl have a future?' To do so, he touches on the states of Perl development and usage, programming on small and large scales, and the new state of Perl usage. He concludes by answering the real question on the minds of so many people (not me): 'Can Perl compete with Java and .NET?'"

• The answer we've all been waiting for (Score:2, Funny)

  by dug (2501)

  Can Perl compete with Java and .NET?'

  Only with Certification!
  
  
  • Re:The answer we've all been waiting for (Score:1)

    by hal9000 (4798)

    Certification from whom? Sun and Microsoft?
    • Re:The answer we've all been waiting for (Score:2, Funny)

      by dug (2501)

      Sorry if I don't articulate my words well in this reply, I had to get my tounge surgically removed from my cheek after the previous comment ;-)
      
      -- dug
      • Re:The answer we've all been waiting for (Score:1)

        by RobertX (3759)

        And to get my foot surgically removed from you a**. : )
  • Should be easy (Score:1)

    by RGiersig (3217)

    Given that there is already a very good archiving, bug-reporting and testing service for modules in place (CPAN and CPAN-testers), we'd just have to start signing CPAN modules. Test results are already available in machine-readable form (I think), so producing a (pragma-like) module that checks signatures, test results and bug-reports for the used modules should be a piece of cake... :o)
• Blatent Plug Time (Score:3, Informative)

  by 2shortplanks (968) on 2004.01.16 6:52 (#27454) Homepage Journal

  It's a good article and it makes some good points, that a lot of Perl's future depends not on Perl 6 but on the excellent releases of current versions of Perl and the ongoing support of previous releases.

  Which is why we're so pleased to have the Perl 5.8.3 (stable), 5.6.2 and 5.005_04 pumpkins giving us a brief summary at the next london.pm tech meet [pm.org] of what they've been up to on Thursday 22nd Jan. If you're in London, why not come along?

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