Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by seesaw 929 days ago
Perl was my first programming language. After more than two decades, it is still the language I feel the most efficient in. Glad to see Perl is still alive and kicking !
2 comments

It was my first language, too, that I learned to write “serious” programs in. I just didn’t think a prominent modern company would choose Perl as their main language. Props to them.
Such choices always come down to personal preferences of tech founders.
I wrote my first web apps in Perl, way back in the 90's! "use CGI" anyone?
Same here. I also built a few web backends using Apache mod_perl, which was insanely fast compared to CGI.
PHP started as mod_perl app, too.
Oh yes, those were the days!