@enobacon Eeks! Seems like a lot of demand for programming now. Didn't know Perl was still in use, but where it is no one else will have a clue. SQL has got to be hot and all SQLs are mostly the same.
@enobacon I'm sure there is perl everywhere. Messed around with perl only a little. Loved the emphasis on obfuscation. But never was able to use it other than personally. Thinking of worse languages to read and I think of Mumps. It also got a lot done though unlike perl has likely disappeared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
@Iragersh Perl in my experience never really had any emphasis on obfuscation, other than as a fun challenge, the perldoc pages are very clear and well-written, and there are good books on how to use it well, plus a culture of test coverage, security, and reliability in both the core language and the CPAN modules ecosystem. There is very little rigor imposed by the tools though, so it's not as easy to obfuscate sloppy thinking behind tidy and seemingly well-organized code as in other languages.
@Iragersh though some pretty sloppy Perl could get the job done, often for people who didn't totally know how it works or completely understand what they had written, with cargo-culted code or like they just wrote C with some $ and @ symbols thrown in.
MUMPS though, running over 40% of the hospitals, woah! But also it probably makes a lot of things about US healthcare make sense (or maybe US healthcare makes a lot of things about MUMPS make sense, IDK enough about either.)
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