Perl Dead, Long Live Perl?
Posted in News by CM8295.Com on the 2007-10-22
Is Perl Dead? Hardly.
http://digg.com/programming/Perl_is_Dead_Long_live_Perl
But, after 16 years of Perl programming, and now working for a Ruby on Rails shop for the past 8 months, I haven’t touched any Perl and I’m happy.
For me, the excitement about Ruby on Rails isn’t Rails, but Ruby.
Ruby is all the things I had always wished Perl was.
Ruby is:
- Object-oriented all the way down — You don’t have to roll your own MOP.
- Modules are first-class — they can be queried and changed at run-time.
- Still supports non-OO programming.
Frankly, I see no reason to go back to Perl except for CPAN. :)
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