On: What Happened to Perl 7? (2022)

[andrewstuart]

I saw a job add for DuckDuckGo the other day - it said that Perl is their primary language.

[ethagnawl → andrewstuart]

I bet people would be surprised to find out how much of the web, various build systems, etc. are still powered by it.

It's been a few years since I've known the following to necessarily be true but some examples that come to mind are Craigslist and BuzzFeed.

[mrbluecoat → andrewstuart]

https://xkcd.com/208/

[djbusby → mrbluecoat]

This one is good too

https://xkcd.com/1171/

[fuzztester → djbusby]

The one about Lisp, Perl and God is good too.

[thesuperbigfrog → fuzztester]

>>The one about Lisp, Perl and God is good too

https://xkcd.com/224/