Hackers' Pub

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John Regehr @regehr@mastodon.social

12/8/2025, 5:14:57 AM

Public

re. this blog post about the decline of perl being a culture problem, I'm a perl user since the 90s and things always felt pretty friendly to me. between the perl monks web site, the Tom Christensen books, CPAN, and other resources, I don't think I ever had a question go unanswered.

I think the more likely explanation is that the sed+awk+crack language design was hugely offputting to newcomers

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical

Perl's decline was cultural

www.beatworm.co.uk

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