I agree 100% as well. Even though I am good at other languages.. my love continue to remain w/ perl. And I still write lot of backend in perl.
I don't think there is any match for perl in terms of speed and it's compactness to get stuff done. On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 10:03 PM Claude Brown <claude.br...@gigacomm.net.au> wrote: > Steve, > > > > I agree. Someone just starting out should go with Python. It pains me to > say it, but Perl isn’t a good skills investment. > > > > My team and I program every day in Perl – we have 100’s of libraries and > system integrations. I love it and it is my first choice for backend > work. Sadly, we are trying to figure out our path to Python. We barely > know Python, so it will be a difficult – but necessary – journey. > > Cheers, > > > Claude. > > > > > > *From:* Steve Park <rich.j...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 8, 2023 11:49 AM > *To:* Andy Bach <afb...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* William Torrez Corea <willitc9...@gmail.com>; beginners@perl.org > *Subject:* Re: My progress in Perl > > > > *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not > click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know > the content is safe. > > Honestly, my advise is if you are beginning to learn programming using > perl in 2023. Don't. > > Pick up python and go from there. > > If you already know some perl and want to advance, yes go right ahead. > > 2023, is perl dead? no. It's a tool and it's still a swiss army of > programming language and lot can be done. > > I would say writing concise and compact programming for regex related > processing, it still is right up there with anything out there today. > > But def if you are learning programming in 2023, you should start w/ > python. > > To be truly useful, you have to learn several language but python(or to > lot of extend, javascript) should be the first language you should > learn(until AI can take over the world). > > > > Having said this, I still love my perl. > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 12:31 PM Andy Bach <afb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I learned Perl back in the V4 days; I was sort of new to linux > admin though a programmer in school and after learning sed/awk/grep to > handle digesting logs and munging data files I heard of Perl. It was a bit > like finding crack cocaine, all sorts of tasks became easy and I wrote > scripts to handle everything. Having a need was the motivation, not > following the books, though I did have a copy of Programming Perl that had > about 40 scotch tape tabs marking places for reference. Other books, the > Perl Monks site and finally a near-by Perl Mongers group really helped me > find the Perl communtiy. > > > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 12:24 PM William Torrez Corea < > willitc9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I started testing some extensions of CPAN but I don't understand anything. > I only execute and then proceed with a book. The name of the book is > Beginning Perl of Curtis Ovid Poe. > > > > I started with a lot of passion but then lost interest, the monotony > conquered me. Actually I am learning references and Complex Data Structures > in Perl. > > > > I have a lot of doubts in my mind: > > > > What is my purpose with this language? > > In my country don't exist use of this language > > I am boring and tired > > > > *I must be a success!* > > > > PD: Add your anecdote with this language. > > > -- > > > With kindest regards, William. > > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ > > > > > -- > > > a > > Andy Bach, > afb...@gmail.com > 608 658-1890 cell > 608 261-5738 wk > >
