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Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)



On Dec 12, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:

> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth.
We would first need to determine that there is an actual problem.
Perl is quite healthy as a language and has aged much better than many 
other younger languages: e.g. there is no need to update all code every 
few years because backward compatibility is preserved basically forever 
at this point.

Perl is still a fundamental tool for system administrators.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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