[doublerabbit]

Perl is being migrated to Python. Two of the big banks I know have been running LLM tooling to migrate from. My last job was for a fortune 10 bank.

I personally learnt it at the age of 17 as the homemade switchboard for MSN Messenger bots were coded in it.

I'm 36 now and still not letting go. Something about the syntax pleases my brain. I am currently learning Erlang.

[markoman]

Were these (bank) applications focused on text-processing or web applications? If they were web applications, I assume they weren't CGIs...

[doublerabbit]

For what I can expand upon, not web applications per-se. They displayed management pages accessible via browser for different departments to manage, resource management, statistics, estimated costs and calculations.

The main usage were on back office tooling such as reporting back job queues, status of specific jobs, load balancing and the likes.

[librasteve]

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