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Felix Wittmann • Edited

Perl is a good language to create data centric backend processes.
The reputation of the language is worse than it really should be.

I used a lot of programming languages in my developer life, but Perl was not the worst of them.

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Ernest

Perl was my first web programming language followed by PHP.

Perl was really fast but it’s very easy to write that code.

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Alex Neamtu

Perl is a great language, but almost all projects are at least 10 years old. You always end up with spaghetti code in an 10 year old codebase.