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Apparently, though unproven, at 14:36 on Sunday 02 January 2011, Lubos Kolouch |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Indexer, Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +1030: |
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> > On 02/01/2011, at 09:04, Grant wrote: |
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> >> I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people |
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> >> subscribed to this list. |
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> >> I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will |
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> >> interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the |
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> >> two projects might be both of them having access to the same database |
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> >> table. The old project is written in a language that is related to |
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> >> perl so I can imagine there would be some benefit to using perl for the |
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> >> new project. Am I foolish to start a new project in perl at this stage |
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> >> in its lifecycle? I won't be doing the coding myself and I wonder if I |
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> >> would be better off with PHP since more coders seem to be familiar with |
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> >> PHP than perl. |
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> > TBH use neither, most people are jumping away from PHP and Perl. |
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> I am not sure who is "most people" but I do almost all my coding in Perl |
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> and love it. Perl has great features and is very cleverly designed |
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> language! |
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> Lubos |
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"Most people" is usually something like "someone who's blog I read and my two |
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friends". In other words, not even close to a mass migration away. |
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Perl has one of the healthiest code ecosystems ever. It's not going away |
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anytime soon. |
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