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Perl's decline was cultural

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393 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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sammy2255 ◴[06 Dec 25 18:40 UTC] No.46175546[source]▶
I don't understand how Perl fell off and PHP didn't
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1. inglor_cz ◴[06 Dec 25 19:03 UTC] No.46175742[source]▶
PHP is, at least for me, way, way more readable. Similar enough to Java that you don't have to re-learn syntax too much.