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[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:17 AM, David Damerell
<damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> On Monday, 9 Feb 2009, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>At the start of the year Jonathan Corbett opined in the Linux Weekly
>>News that this year was make or break for Perl and it was looking more
>>break than make.
>
> I think that may be more filling space than anything else. Perl isn't
> going to suddenly amaze everyone this year and it isn't going to go
> away.
>
> Think how silly it would be if you read the same thing about Emacs.
>
> Some people like it, some people don't, everyone with any real
> experience in the field knows it's out there, it's a bit
> idiosyncratic, it does some jobs very well, it can be a bit
> frustrating, there are plenty of other text editors/scripting
> languages, some of them look pretty good, fans of Emacs/Perl will tell
> you how theirs is different and much better and does a million extra
> things, there might be a major new version soon but don't hold your
> breath...
>
> ... but it's never going to be "make or break" after this long.
> Neither complete obscurity nor rampant popularity will happen except
> possibly after many more years of gradually drifting one way or the
> other.
>


What I have seen out in the field is that people have a perception
that Perl lends itself more easily to create unmaintainable code.

It is a reputation that may  be difficult to shake and it may be
spreading beyond the realm of Perl wizardry.
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