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Perl's decline was cultural

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393 points todsacerdoti | 6 comments | 06 Dec 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source | bottom
1. IshKebab ◴[06 Dec 25 18:18 UTC] No.46175351[source]▶
Nah Perl just wasn't a very good language. Not every language is equally good.
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2. ◴[06 Dec 25 18:31 UTC] No.46175473[source]▶
3. DonHopkins ◴[06 Dec 25 18:56 UTC] No.46175688[source]▶
We don't have to say such things, because the syntactic sirup of ipecac and sputtering line noise of perl code speaks for itself.
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4. IshKebab ◴[06 Dec 25 19:03 UTC] No.46175739{3}[source]▶
Clearly not loudly enough - look at all the people here searching for some mysterious cultural reason it failed.
5. zahlman ◴[06 Dec 25 19:07 UTC] No.46175767[source]▶
Ironically alluding to the possibility of others who would castigate you for saying something reasonable things, is not any less obnoxious than the castigation.
6. forgotpwd16 ◴[07 Dec 25 12:55 UTC] No.46181352[source]▶
Neither is Ruby that has also similarly disappeared and article praised it? Or Lisp? On the opposite end, C, PHP, JS that are omni-present are good languages? Sometimes meritocracy and success don't align.