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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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1. pjmlp ◴[07 Dec 25 09:10 UTC] No.46180300[source]▶

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Strange, maybe because of being a 70's kid and a D&D nerd, that kind of stuff is exactly why I liked Perl in first place.

That and Perl giving me a reason to do safe programming in UNIX with a managed language that exposed all the UNIX API surface, and only switching back into C when I actually needed some additional perf, or low level stuff not fully exposed in Perl.

Then again, I am also a fanboi of Haskell, C++, Scala, Idris and similar "wizard" languages.

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Perl's decline was cultural