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I write some new Perl/Gtk application a couple times a year. And I use it for automating basic things almost daily. I bet lots of people chose to write in perl for personal projects. It just isn't very visible.
But not that many. And that's why Perl is still Perl. Popularity brings change which means old code stops working.
Perl code from the year 2000 still works in a perl interpreter+libs today. And perl code written today still works on perl interpreter+libs from the year 2000. That incredible stability and reliability is what makes it great. Write something then use it 20 years later and everything just works anywhere you try to run it.
That's why I chose Perl.
The perl I write today is very unlikely to run on a perl version from 2000, aside maybe from trivial one-liners.
shawn_w commented on Design patterns you should unlearn in Python lihil.cc/blog/design-patt... · Posted by u/zeitlupe
Peter Norvig has a well-known piece that goes into more depth on why the GoF-style patterns don't make much sense in high-level languages:
Those slides would be a lot more useful with a transcript of the talk that went along with them. Or a video of it. Wonder if anything like that still exists.
shawn_w commented on Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler mayhul.com/posts/schedule... · Posted by u/tlf
Isn't a "centralized task scheduler" pretty much what cron is?
shawn_w commented on Clj-coll: Clojure collections and sequences in Common Lisp github.com/dtenny/clj-col... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Very nice! I love this sort of polyglot feature cross-pollination. My CL isn't as strong as my Clojure, I can't tell if the persistent vector implementation implements finger tries w/reference sharing or not, but will be very impressed if that is the case!
It uses FSst seqs for immutable vectors, which in turn use weight balanced binary trees like other FSet data structures.
> Are you in the USA?
Sweden.
That's what I figured. Yeah, no wonder your experience is different.
> Why not?
M. Emmett Walsh, Carl Reiner, Maurice Evans and Jackie Mason are all dead, for one reason.