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Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian



On 2024-12-12 20:51, Marco d'Itri wrote:
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.

+1, advantages of Perl should not be ignored.

Andrius


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