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Official: Perl the most hated programming language, say devs

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My own relationship with perl is complicated. I used it for everything that was too laborious to do in C (and later java) for a good dozen years or so. I used to ask the python evangelists, "What can I do in a .py that I can't do in a .pl..." just to watch their enthusiasm dim as they skulked away.

Then something changed. Perl 6 was supposed to happen, but didn't. I had to begrudgingly admit that I could read almost anyone's python code but had a hard time making sense of my own 5 year old perl hack.

And bugs! Constructs I'd been using for years suddenly stopped working, on Linux even, not just Windows & Mac.

So perl is like that old Honda that used to be my go-to way to get lots of places, and suddenly it's no longer as reliable, and I am starting to covet my neighbor's Hyundai.

RIP, perl.

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