Re: Whats happened to perl beginners group?

Harry writes:

> Adam Sjøgren <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Harry writes:
>>
>>> Anyone know what has become of the perl beginners group?
>>
>> Perl ran out of beginners?
>>
>> All the beginners switched to Python?
>>
>> Sorry, couldn't help myself.
>
> That was good one. Eventhough I was the butt of it, I still broke out
> in a big guffaw when I read it.

I programmed in Perl for a living up until a couple of years ago... and
we switched to Python :-)

> But seriously, do you think there is really something to that?

The latest email on the beginners mailing list was in November last
year, that's not that long ago. Hopefully the next one reaches Gmane.

But yes, my younger colleagues all cringe when Perl is mentioned. Then
they remember that some of us used to program in Perl, and then they try
to divert attention from the cringing.

I actually liked that we were using kind of a "niche" language¹, because
it meant that everybody (ok, most) actively _chose_ the language they
were programming in. Like, they actually had a fucking preference, not
just using whatever they were told to.

These days everything is Python (or Javascript), and that's because
that's a) what is taught and b) what is hip.

For the last decade or so I've been trying to teach myself Haskell by
writing things I want² - progress is slow and I don't see any companies
around here looking for Haskell-competencies.

But I digress.


  Best regards,

    Adam


¹ To be fair, Perl wasn't that niche in bioinformatics, but it is
  becoming more and more so.

² First thing that was actually doing something is the web-part of
  Feedbase (https://feedbase.org/), currently I'm starting to use an
  nntp-based "blogging engine" (Lantern: https://koldfront.dk/git/lantern/about/)
  on https://koldfront.dk/

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 "Hur långt man än har kommit                               Adam Sjøgren
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