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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: 0.203s | source
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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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1. 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.