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by dragonwriter
2606 days ago
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> Imo, the reason perl failed was not because the syntax was obscure but because even once you learned the syntax, it was still hard to read perl code. IMO, the reason Perl failed is that Perl 6 (which is a fairly awesome language in its own right) sucked up all the energy in moving Perl forward for too long and delivered too late, while competing languages kept providing usable progress (and avoided, as a consequence, looking dead, which may be as important as the actual usable progress itself.) |
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