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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: 0.304s | source
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mschuster91 ◴[06 Dec 25 18:39 UTC] No.46175538[source]▶
I don't get why Ruby is mentioned before PHP. The only Ruby thing I've ever come across is GitLab, and not with positive associations either - up until maybe 3, 4 years ago particularly Sidekiq was a constant point of utter pain.
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1. petepete ◴[07 Dec 25 11:37 UTC] No.46181014[source]▶
I suspect it's because Ruby's ability to deal with strings is so heavily influenced by Perl.

When I first started using Ruby after years of Perl, it felt familiar but everything was just more... sensible.