#Perl programming language portable#
#Perl programming language software#
#Perl programming language code#

#Perl programming language portable#

Then there's the lack of portable support for sane forwarding until very recently. Lisp and Smalltalk had these from the start. Trying to efficiently represent a 64-bit integer in JavaScript is basically impossible, trying to support arbitrary-precision integers is horrible pain. In contrast, JavaScript has only one numeric type, a double-precision floating point value.

Smalltalk had a rich set of integer and floating point types, and the default integer kind was automatically promoted to a BigInt object on overflow. If you come from a Smalltalk or Self background, the lack of sane support for numbers is a good reason to hate JavaScript. There is no reason to hate Javascript unless you come from C++/Java 'inherit everything and override everything' classes. The slippery slope being loved by children and idiots alike, one might say 'I know Perl, let's use that!' and countless innocents are harmed. The problem is that more and more people are using scripting languages for this purpose, and it's becoming socially acceptable to do so.

#Perl programming language code#

If I'm going to write serious code, code that may formulate the basis for my corporations revenue model or may seriously improve our cost structure, I use a serious language (C/C++, usually) and spend significant amounts of time architecting it properly. And usually it's fine, the little bits of perl here and there that glue the world together aren't usually that egregious to maintain (particularly in context of the overall mechanism it's being used to glue together, usually). If I want to process lots of text, I do not use Python, I whip out perl.

#Perl programming language software#

It violates everything some may have been taught as part of their software engineering program: it's difficult to read, maintain, and support.īut, it exists for a reason and it's ridiculously good at that purpose. My experience with the Perl hate is it's usually from younger people (by which I mean anyone under about 40). 'And the least-disliked tags - R, Rust, TypeScript and Kotlin - are all among the fast-growing tags (TypeScript and Kotlin growing so quickly they had to be truncated in the plot).' 'Almost everything disliked by more than 3 per cent of Stories mentioning it is shrinking in Stack Overflow traffic (except for the quite polarizing VBA, which is steady or slightly growing),' said Robinson. In a blog post seen by The Register ahead of its publication today, Stack Overflow data scientist David Robinson said usually there's a relationship between how fast a particular tag is growing and how often it's disliked. Further down the down the list of unloved programming language comes PHP, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, and Ruby.

The yardstick here consists of the ratio of 'likes' and 'dislikes' listed in developer story profiles to merit chart position, the topic or tag in question had to show up in at least 2,000 stories. For developers who have chosen to provide testaments of loathing, Perl tops the list of disliked programming languages, followed by Delphi and VBA. Included therein is an input box for tech they'd prefer to avoid. The community coding site offers programmers a way to document their technical affinities on their developer story profile pages. Thomas Claburn, writing for The Register: Developers really dislike Perl, and projects associated with Microsoft, at least among those who volunteer their views through Stack Overflow.