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by tannhaeuser 1084 days ago
Perl didn't replace anything. It was replaced by PHP for CGI programming (which says a lot!) and botched itself by the second worst version migration of all times.
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bonzini 1084 days ago
Perl 4 to 5 was quite successful. Perl 5 to 6 was definitely worse than Python 2 to 3, since the latter actually worked out in the end.
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