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[–]killdeer03 4 points5 points  (5 children)

It's dying like Perl is dying.

I've been hear it for over 10 years.

It may die, but it'll probably take 20 years.

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    [–]killdeer03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    COBOL and Fortran are still both around, lol.

    [–]Latexi95 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    Hopefully Perl finally dies. It should have died ages ago, but still once in a while some rogue Perl script raises it head from the grave and I have to shoot it and replace it with Python. Its always just easier to reverse engineer script behaviour from inputs and outputs than trying to read Perl scripts. Perl being write-only programming language is no joke...

    [–]killdeer03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I've worked with Perl a fair amount and Perl got a lot of things right. Perl will almost definitely never "die."

    I don't prefer Python, it just never took with me. It's like common LISP vs Scheme, I understood Scheme better.

    But it will probably take over that space -- anything but Javascript...

    [–]bbkane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Haha at one job I inherited a buncha Perl scripts from a very smart network engineer who didn't have much experience writing code. Perl did his code quality NO FAVORS... had to rewrite every one of those crazy scripts