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Who Said Perl is Dead?

Started by jessestay · 10 months ago

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I’ve been following the issue list for Google App Engine (just realized it doesn’t have an “s” in the offici ... Continue reading »

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  • matt harrison

    1 year ago

    Not sure I userstand "how Python would fare if it got equal treatment."? Python is one of the languages Google uses (besides employing Guido), it makes sense that Python is the (or at least the initial language for AppEngine).

    Have you messed with Python or Ruby at all? I've known many developers that have left perl/java/php for either python or ruby and haven't looked back.

    I'll concede that CPAN is a huge benefit to perl....
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  • Jesse Stay

    1 year ago

    Matt, yes, I have used Rails before and every time I try I always hit a deadend somewhere that would make it much harder to scale than if I just were to use Perl and Catalyst. Many of those I've seen switch to Rails from Perl often were not willing to take the time and learn Catalyst or another MVC framework on Perl itself. Many of the people I know switch to Ruby because of the hype. Let me turn this around - have you tried Perl and Catalyst before? You may just not look back if you take the time to learn it as well.

    Regarding my comments on Python, it was pure curiosity - I simply see all this as fascinating. Python obviously gets preferential treatment by Google, but how would it fare against Java or Ruby or PHP or Perl in a popularity contest like this?
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