>>Yes, there are still Perl shops. But no, there aren't very many of them
That's because any shop that needs to get job done quickly is a Perl shop. During my early career I even knew a architect who had sort of put a blanket ban on any Perl to be written. He was only stumped people were largely acting like pirates, were writing and running directories full of Perl code all the time.
Only a week back, I needed some stuff to be written. Talked to a Java guy, he tells me he can do it in a week. Told him to never mind. Went back to my desk and wrote in a afternoon in Perl. And we are a Java shop and write Java most of the time. But its just that Perl is unbeatable in getting things done.
And yeah Python. It doesn't even remotely hold a candle to Perl in terms of practicality and getting things done. Readability and all that, but frankly beyond that there is nothing in Python. Not even multiline lambdas, half baked, half implemented functional programming features. IO looks like somebody held a gun to the implementors head and he added it because he had to.
Some times I even find, sed and awk to be a million times more useful than Python.
> That's because any shop that needs to get job done quickly is a Perl shop.
Be careful with that wild generalization. I’ve seen lots more “get job done quickly” in Ruby than Perl (but neither as much as with Python recently). I have nothing bad to say about Perl, but it’s not really defensible to claim it’s used as commonly as other languages.
Just remember there is a lot of perl creeping around the linux ecosystem; it may not be fashionable today but availability of the perl command is still more common than python, second only to bash/sh.
That's because any shop that needs to get job done quickly is a Perl shop. During my early career I even knew a architect who had sort of put a blanket ban on any Perl to be written. He was only stumped people were largely acting like pirates, were writing and running directories full of Perl code all the time.
Only a week back, I needed some stuff to be written. Talked to a Java guy, he tells me he can do it in a week. Told him to never mind. Went back to my desk and wrote in a afternoon in Perl. And we are a Java shop and write Java most of the time. But its just that Perl is unbeatable in getting things done.
And yeah Python. It doesn't even remotely hold a candle to Perl in terms of practicality and getting things done. Readability and all that, but frankly beyond that there is nothing in Python. Not even multiline lambdas, half baked, half implemented functional programming features. IO looks like somebody held a gun to the implementors head and he added it because he had to.
Some times I even find, sed and awk to be a million times more useful than Python.