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Is Perl Dead?

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Join Date: May 2008
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Re: Is Perl Dead?

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May 23rd, 2008
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Originally Posted by jephthah View Post
^ yeap... i agree pretty much with everything you said there. (except i think perl is pretty easy for beginners to get started, at least for the basics...)

and FORTRAN is dead. but it also still runs the majority of our nation's nuclear power plants. not bad for a dead language.

i still love Perl, it's amazingly powerful and adaptable.

i think im just annoyed that 5.x has been around for 14 years, and they've been promising 6.0 "any day now" for the past 7 or 8.



Perl 6 will come out with Duke Nukem Forever and Spore...
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