Written diarrhea, the language

>Written diarrhea, the language

epic meme bro

do people still use perl?

I thought python and powershell completely overtook it

Rust is somehow worse.

I'm fighting with a client who insists that his perl script is the solution.

What's the problem? Doesn't matter. His perl script is not the solution.

Give me perl over python or powershell anyday lol.

we still use it regularly at my workplace

Perl is love, perl is life

>powershell
pot jej

>His perl script is not the solution.
Why it's not the solution?

because it's old! if you don't rewrite everything every 6 months with the newest, freshest frameworks, then your code is poop! lol!

>His perl script is not the solution.
You can't read it can you?

> Why it's not the solution?
Because this user/pythonista probably thinks that everything should be written in python since he does not know any other language.
Probably still hasn't switched to Python 3 out of laziness.

> Python
Perl is a better choice most of the time if we talk about the realms in which Perl is most prominent.

>Powershell
wow now you're not being serious

> if we talk about the realms in which Perl is most prominent.
What are those realms?

who /CGI/ here

diarrhea

>Hating on Powershell

Powershell is easy to use and is extremely powerful. Why the hate?

kek

Unreasonably long start up times, even on high-end hardware.
It's the only reason I'm still using cmd over powershell as my main shell.

3.4 made me think to drop python. Perl is still needed for legacy code.

>easy to use
Most scripting languages are easy if you're willing to take the time to learn their particular syntax. Powershell is proprietary and Windows-only. Not even worth learning in 2017.

>Powershell is proprietary and Windows-only
Powershell has been open source and available on Linux for almost a year

And even if it was Windows only, every enterprise runs Windows to some extent to it's not like you'd be silo'ing yourself out of a job by learning it.

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>not like you'd be siloing yourself by learning it
You could say that about literally anything. Doesn't make it worthwhile.

Powershell on linux is not very useful today, and the biggest Linux vendor (Google) doesn't include it in their distros.

>available on Linux for almost a year
Why would I want a lobotomised version of bash when csh already exists?

>python
>because slow as fuck is the solution

Turns out a shell written in a to-go compiled, reasonably optimizing language isn't the best idea...