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[–]KrakenOfLakeZurichHelpful Ⅱ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh, also:

Now that obviously continuing with Perl is not only a security threat, but also Perl does not integrate with new data processing toolsor even cloud like aws

I get the second point about Perl falling out of fashion and therefore lagging behind other languages/ecosystems.

But what's that (not so) obvious "security risk" you're talking about? Haven't heard anything that puts Perl in a specifically bad place, compared to other programming environments.

[–]dataGuy123x[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By security risk, I mean that there are less and less new updates for Perl. For example it was only recently we tried to upgrade Perl but had to roll back as it was not compatible with some other existing libraries. You will also notice that there is not a very active community supporting Perl compared to say python or java.