Why Perl still lives ...ext_62089September 14 2007, 06:12:27 UTC
Sometimes I'm amazed that Perl is still a viable programming language, given that there have been no real improvements on the language since Perl 5.8, and despite being a big fan of one of the project leads (he was a *funny* CS lecturer, and that's very rare!) I have no confidence that Perl 6 will ever arrive.
But then I remember ... Perl has CPAN. No other programming language has such an amazing breadth and depth of largely interoperable modules, mostly installable through a one command package manager.
Why Perl still lives ...ext_62089September 14 2007, 06:13:20 UTC
Sometimes I'm amazed that Perl is still a viable programming language, given that there have been no real improvements on the language since Perl 5.8, and despite being a big fan of one of the project leads (he was a *funny* CS lecturer, and that's very rare!) I have no confidence that Perl 6 will ever arrive.
But then I remember ... Perl has CPAN. No other programming language has some an amazing breadth and depth of largely interoperable modules, mostly installable through a one command package manager.
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But then I remember ... Perl has CPAN. No other programming language has such an amazing breadth and depth of largely interoperable modules, mostly installable through a one command package manager.
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But then I remember ... Perl has CPAN. No other programming language has some an amazing breadth and depth of largely interoperable modules, mostly installable through a one command package manager.
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