I started using Perl around '91 after hearing many raves a year or two earlier
from coworkers. I still use it regularly and have written several systems of
over 10,000 lines, which would not have been reasonable without OO Perl. We
have used Perl at my current team because we felt it was the fastest way to
write the code.
I have been chastised from SPUG members and management for using Perl for more
than a scripting language. I agree that there are maddening things about the
language that I wish weren't there, particularly involving support of stronger
typed variables (better) and named procedure parameters (better). I wish I had
access to better debugging tools (suggestions?) and that I would take the time
to learn how to use a good Perl IDE (suggestions?)
I plan to port a lot of my applications and libraries to Java, which should be
mostly straight forward. This would mainly be so that we could get better staff
support, and to have my libraries available to our Web systems that happen to
be written on Java.
So, I think Perl is a good language. Perl 6 is better, but seems to have lost
steam. I may have to move to Python or all Java in the future, however.
-- Daniel Pommert
On July 7, 2016 7:56:16 AM PDT, Kevin Esteb <[email protected]> wrote:
>I write Perl code every day. It's part of the infrastructure. Nobody
>gets excited about infrastructure, unless it doesn't work. Perl just
>works.
>
>
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>To: Chris Nandor; Patrick Feliciano
>Cc: SPUG Members
>Subject: Re: SPUG: Knock Knock
>
>On 07/07/2016 05:00 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:
>> I've never stopped using Perl as my primary language ...
>>
>
>Yes but the idea of "revival" assumes lots of new people are using the
>language, which is not true (compared to others growth).
>
>JD
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