On Tue Dec 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM GMT, Bill Allombert wrote:
The actual perl problem is that, since perl is very strict about backward compatibility, perl scripts written 10 or 20 years ago still work without requiring maintainance, hence they may appear to beabandonned. Rewriting such software in a language that require yearly maintainancedoes not simplify maintainance in the long run, quite the opposite.
FWIW, a Ruby script I wrote to help me triage DSAs¹ is approaching its 20th birthday, I'm happy to report Ruby appears to have avoided any disasters like Python's 2→3 transition.
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