I’ve never been happier and more productive than when I was working in Perl. It’s a language that, at its apex, had a community of incredibly smart and creative people evolving it and its ecosystem. It’s a practical, powerful, multi-paradigm language that let me get work done with a minimum of fuss.
Perl was a language that felt like an extension of my thoughts, like it was working with me and for me. Most other languages feel like I am working for the compiler rather than the other way around. Or at the very least, spending unnecessary effort satisfying some language designer’s personal pet peeve, which constantly takes me out of the flow of the job I’m trying to do.
I started a job a while back where Perl was heavily used and I hadn’t had much exposure to it. I spent some time just doing the same thing in Perl and Python and I really enjoyed working with Perl for the reasons you listed. I was just somehow very easy to use and be productive.
I haven’t touched it since I left and Perl is completely unused and almost alien where I am now.
I’ve never been happier and more productive than when I was working in Perl. It’s a language that, at its apex, had a community of incredibly smart and creative people evolving it and its ecosystem. It’s a practical, powerful, multi-paradigm language that let me get work done with a minimum of fuss.
Perl was a language that felt like an extension of my thoughts, like it was working with me and for me. Most other languages feel like I am working for the compiler rather than the other way around. Or at the very least, spending unnecessary effort satisfying some language designer’s personal pet peeve, which constantly takes me out of the flow of the job I’m trying to do.
I still use Perl for everything I do. Using anything else just feels too much of a struggle trying to get it to do what I’m telling it to do.
But maybe that’s the 25+ years of using it talking.
Perl was always fun
I started a job a while back where Perl was heavily used and I hadn’t had much exposure to it. I spent some time just doing the same thing in Perl and Python and I really enjoyed working with Perl for the reasons you listed. I was just somehow very easy to use and be productive.
I haven’t touched it since I left and Perl is completely unused and almost alien where I am now.