Perl is Not Dead and Never Will Be
Perl is Not Dead and Never Will Be Every few years, some hipster developer declares “Perl is dead.” They’re wrong. Perl is immortal. The Lies They Tell You “Perl is Legacy Code” Bullshit. Perl is production code. It’s running: Critical financial systems Web servers handling millions of requests System administration tools Bioinformatics pipelines Text processing workflows “Perl is Unreadable” This is the most tired argument in programming. Perl is only unreadable if you’re a bad programmer. ...