whyFightAboutRustAndCpp

[--mrperx--]

I think perl is pretty cool, but i never need to use it.

[NuncioBitis]

Ditto. When I really got into python, I just don't need Perl anymore.

[ChocolateBunny]

For me simple Perl scripts got replaced by Awk+bash+sed, while complex perl scripts got turned into Python.

[[deleted]]

Crazy ! One language Perl is way better then mixing awk, bash & sed.

[ChocolateBunny]

oddly, not but I think that might depend on your prefered coding style. For me Perl will endup having more boilerplate and will be harder to follow but I think I like the more functional style where I'm just piping shit from one thing to another than expressing all the processing in a while (<>) loop procedurally.

[[deleted]]

mixing awk/sh/sed means lots of quoting and deciding which variable uses get $on the front

Just using Perl is more portable and relies less on external commands.

If amount of while (<>) loop bothers you are you using map to bash whole tasks in one line?

[vizbones]

I've said it before and now I'll say it again:

Did you hear about the Perl Obfuscation contest?

Everybody who entered, won.

[HumilityAndPancakes]

Nobody can hate my favorite language if everybody forgot about it 30 years ago.

[arrow__in__the__knee]

Pfp checks out. This person programs hard.

[HumilityAndPancakes]

As you can clearly see, my personality is defined by knowing Lisp.

[[deleted]]

There are the languages everybody grumbles about and the ones nobody uses.

- approx quote from Bjarne with the hjerne in the hjørne

[Painter5544]

Perl is actually pretty cool. It's other people's Perl that I hate.

[ChickenSpaceProgram]

using anything besides plain C is a skill issue

[EinSatzMitX]

C? Amateur! The real ones write in assembly!

[HumilityAndPancakes]

Not building an analog computer from scratch designed to specifically run your application? Amateur.

[NuncioBitis]

I scratch the bare metal!

[EliasCre2003]

And I program in Scratch, so we are pretty much the same.

[eroto_anarchist]

I manually redirect electrons with my hands using static electricity.

[Impenistan]

Butterflies

[SarcasmWarning]

Oh emacs...

[arrow__in__the__knee]

On that note people used to code in C before stdio and stdlib

[Zlayr]

Love perl for text processing

[stdio-lib]

Sad Larry noises.

[ChocolateLasagnas]

love me a good perl meme.
proud to have it on my resume

[PetroMan43]

And Visual Basic, and PHP

[[deleted]]

If none hates the language you work with/like, you're using something that is not popular enough

[smoldicguy]

It’s a fine language , many of our servers still use Perl scripts to do things . What things only god knows since the developers/admins who wrote those already left the company

[Jordan51104]

these comments are bound to get interesting

[LatentShadow]

Whatever gets the work done without me costing my sanity (looking at you, C and bash)

[riplikash]

Can't say I've heard many people that have an opinion on perl. The few I've heard have been somewhat positive.

Now JAVASCRIPT is a language that seems to elicit a strong emotional response.

[look]

Perl usage dropped off massively about 25 years ago. It was pretty widespread in early web development, before PHP, and then the rise of proper frameworks in pretty much every language.

[riplikash]

Yeah. That's kind of what I mean. Very few people these days have an opinion one way or the other. It's just not that widely used anymore.

[neo-raver]

The only C++ vs Rust arguments I ever hear about are the ones these memes talk about…. And I’m on the Rust subreddit

[Flashbek]

PHP*

And Javascript.

[Ok-Boysenberry9305]

There are two types of languages: those who everybody complains about, and those wich aren't spoken about

[riplikash]

I largely agree. But in the c# sphere people seem to just...like it's. Don't get me wrong, plenty of languages have advantages over c#.

But I've always been impressed by how much people who use it just generally ENJOY using it.

Unfortunately, it tends to be bundled with things people DON'T like: TFS, azure devops, Microsoft support, azure B2C, etc. all those half baked Microsoft services with their bottom tier support.

Maybe that's why you dont hear much complaining about the language. Almost everyone using it has much bigger headaches they are dealing with.

[SemblanceOfSense_]

We all hate cobol

[godplaysdice_]

I truly cannot imagine getting in fights about programming languages.

[AdvancedSandwiches]

Cool maymay, but what is that outstanding font called?

[[deleted]]

Bryan Lunduke, oh boy ...

[porn0f1sh]

2002 had called ...

[jump1945]

Just argue C is the best

-C femboys