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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: 0s | source
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jordanb ◴[06 Dec 25 18:16 UTC] No.46175337[source]▶
I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense. Then there was the whole one-liner thing that was all about being clever and obscure. Everything about Python came off as being much more serious and normal for a young nerd who wasn't a theater kid.
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Insanity ◴[06 Dec 25 19:00 UTC] No.46175715[source]▶
I don’t know about the wider Perl community, but I listened to some interviews from Larry Wall and he just came across as a nerdy guy having fun with what he’s doing. I quite liked listening to him.
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1. riffraff ◴[06 Dec 25 19:32 UTC] No.46175974[source]▶
I was never a perl programmer, but this was my impression of basically every perl programmer I have interacted with.

Also, I think Larry Wall's "Diligence, Patience, Humility"[0] is among my favourite articles about programming.

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/larry.html