Perl Relevance Debate
Comments discuss Perl's declining popularity, readability criticisms, comparisons to Python and Ruby, and whether it's still worth learning or using today.
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Perl might not be that popular precisely because you could even program it in Latin :D
I thought that Perl was the swiss army chainsaw? Now I'm all confused.
"Perl is a write only language"
Is there a reason to learn Perl these days when we have Python?
Do you really think of Perl as an obscure language?
Yeah, those Perl hackers are really out of touch :-)
Perl is outstanding, I wish more things used it!
What did Perl do better than others when it came out?
And people say perl is unreadable ;)
But isn't Perl the one we all left behind?