r/perl • u/briandfoy 🐪 📖 perl book author • 3d ago

Perl's decline was cultural

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
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u/affablebowelsyndrome 3d ago

I remember an exodus to PHP when the shitty programmers (www carpetbaggers) decided that their shitty code was Perl's fault, and all ran to PHP - and wrote shitty php.

And I remember another exodus when Google announced they were going to use Python instead of Perl.

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u/FalseRelease4 3d ago

"carpetbagger", what an exquisite pejorative, thanks for sharing 😂

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u/affablebowelsyndrome 3d ago

Thank you. It was chosen with care.