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by whatnow37373 440 days ago
There is a world outside of Perl. There really is.

It's a general observation of how we are infatuated with composibility, then tire of it and unify and then learn to love it again because the unifications grow stale and weird of which Perl is an excellent example.

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I switched to Python in 1998, and I haven't gone back to the Unix philosophy of decomposition into small command-line tools which interoperate via text and pipes, nor the COM/DCOM/CORBA approach, nor microservices, nor even Erlang processes, so I'm really not the target audience for your joke.
Fair enough and sounds like a good career. I'm up to my elbow in microservices.