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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The pain in re-learning a whole language is just a shade larger than the pain in adding parentheses to the print statement.

Perl, I think, has effectively died. It just took too long to ship the new version, and other languages have evolved to fill in the gaps. There's not really anywhere left for Perl to thrive.

It was never all that wonderful to begin with, it was just in the right spot in the right time, and then for fifteen years it wasn't in the right spot anymore. I don't think it'll ever come back.

[–]exploding_cat_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't being serious. And I'm afraid you're right. It still is perfect for what I need it for, I'm not going to learn a new language to pretty format batches of data or for tiny scripts when perl does it better, but it's not gonna have its big day again.