hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

  • @glad_cat
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    610 months ago

    It has never been an issue for me in 20 years. If you move code, you cut a whole paragraph, paste, and indent appropriately.

    • El Barto
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      -310 months ago

      If I move code in non-python code, I cut a whole paragraph, paste, and I’m done if that’s all I wanted to do.

      • @glad_cat
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        -110 months ago

        Your code won’t be indented properly, same problem as Python unless you have a formatting tool in your setup.

        • El Barto
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          10 months ago

          It won’t matter. It will still compile correctly every time, as opposed to python, and that’s my point. Choice. Choice is the key here.

            • El Barto
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              110 months ago

              I know Python is interpreted, but regardless, my point still stands. Just replace compile with run correctly.