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0 pointsh3throw7y ago0 comments

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

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lallysingh7y ago· 2 in thread

Good point. There's probably good money in the "host all the stuff that's old and scary" business.

Coffeewine7y ago

My org is still writing new code in perl5. The degree to which it's unappealing is, in my opinion, greatly overstated.

greglindahl7y ago

Most folks who like complaining about perl5 are doing so because they've worked with some terrible old codebase written in it. Terrible code is terrible code. But well-written perl5 code can be fun to work with.

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