By the way I know for a fact that on their big deployment contracts Cisco does not use their own products to manage their switches. They actually use Perl scripts.
Original Message From: Steven Haigh Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 04:11 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Perl 6 just hit On 30/12/16 20:04, [email protected] wrote: > What you will here is Perl is dead, but the truth is most people use it on a > daily basis and don't know it. Perl is still the swiss army chainsaw of > scripting languages. If you do an online transaction - somewhere between you and your bank, you hit a perl script. It's been said that the next financial crisis will be triggered by a perl bug. Even more seriously, stuff that absolutely must work, all the time, every time and for more than a year at a time is written in perl. Billion of dollars a month get moved around with perl scripts - and that won't change anytime soon... -- Steven Haigh Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
