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January 10, 2004
The State of Perl
In 1994, after leaving university I decided to teach myself a new programming language. We had been taught various languages at university already but I was intrigued by the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (Perl). Ten years on and I guess I'm still a Perl programmer. Very rarely, admittedly. I'm trying to avoid contact with computers (ha!), let alone development, but it's still my fave swiss-army soft.
The tireless community around Perl is still at it. A recent essay on The State of Perl [Jan. 09, 2004] sets out a vision for a language and philosophy that still seems pretty fresh to me.
"Why do we use Perl every day? Because Perl scales to solve both small and large problems. Unlike languages like C, C++, and Java, Perl allows us to write small, trivial programs quickly and easily, without sacrificing the ability to build large applications and systems. The skills and tools we use on large projects are also available when we write small programs.
Perl's success ... is not predicated on some other language's failure. Perl's success hinges upon helping you get your job done." There's more than one way to do it.
Posted by .M. at January 10, 2004 08:35 AM
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