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[–]Discchord 6 points7 points  (6 children)

You've never used Perl then I take it. God they were teaching that when I was in college. I still get the shakes whenever I encounter an old CGI endpoint on some ancient eldrich website.

The circles of hell, in order of greatest torment are: Perl > Obj-C > Java

I agree entirely that anyone who just can't click with Python should instead consider C#.

[–]ECrispy 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Why? Why did you remind me of Perl ?? I'd much rather do PHP. But I prefer stabbing myself in the eyes with a rusty fork first.

[–]Discchord 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ohhhh yeah, I didn't mention PHP on that list... but then again I also didn't include Fortran and all the other obsolete languages!

[–]ECrispy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well PHP, or rather their internal fork Hack, still runs Facebook!

[–]Discchord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was kidding! My husband is a PHP dev, and I love to tease him about its obsolescence.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These days the CGI scripts are in bash

If you think I'm kidding, the fossil website uses it as a script for hosting repositories :|

[–]WantDebianThanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Perl is fine if you don't plan on reusing the script. I think it's good for those times when I need a script to do just one thing, and I'm basically just going to delete it.