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i cut my teeth as a coder writing perl, a language with a notoriously toxic community which i ended up witnessing from the inside for years, and which infamously shot itself in the foot when trying to design a future for it. here's a great essay about all of that www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/compute...

beatworm.co.ukPerl's decline was cultural

26/8/26, 10:40 am2 reposts4 likes

a cryptful of cats

@hex.ooo

26 Aug

i spent years with the core perl people on irc, even had a job once where several of my colleagues were or had been release managers for the entire language, somewhere i have a photo of me sat next to larry wall (who created it) at a dinner during a perl conference. this essay is spot-on

a cryptful of cats

@hex.ooo

26 Aug

fascinating how this compact summary explains the reason for a significant chunk of my life after i got online and the dotcom boom happened

a cryptful of cats

@hex.ooo

26 Aug

incidentally i still think perl 5 is a great language in many ways and still turn to it on occasion if i need some kind of small tool to handle a thing for me. which is exactly what i'm doing right now, and how i ended up finding that essay through some curious searching