I'm kind of at a turning point with respect to programming languages. As you may know, I've been programming in Perl for the last 15 years. But development in Perl has stalled - the indifference that characterizes the ugly Perl sites listed here has now extended into the langauge itself (and note you can't even read the comments in this indifferent design). Instead of a natural progression from Perl 5 to Perl 6, we are watching the very slow unfolding of the death of the language as it fragments into the Strawberry, Rakudo, Parrot and other projects, none of which actually work yet, despite years of development. Perl has never been particularly friendly, but it always worked, and was (compared to other scripting languages) robust and fast. Now, well, Perl 6 has descrended into a pit of programmer self-indulgance, with no migration path for even experienced uisers such as myself, and no prospect of one. So, now I need to ask myself, where next? Not PHP, which is the definition of spaghetti code. Python or Ruby means committing myself to a framework (which is basically what the Perl people are trying to do). Java? Life's too short.
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