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3,500 line patch to the perl core sent integrating autodie. Super ohloh points shall be mine! ;) pjf — 20 days ago tags: Perl,autodie,Spring.NET Application Framework
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more. Its major features include support for multiple programming paradigms (procedural, object-oriented, and functional styles), automatic memory management, built-in support for text processing, and a large collection of third-party modules.
It's worth noting that Perl is currently under /very/ active development - although the commit stats here don't reflect that fact because the version control system Perl uses isn't yet compatible with Ohloh. Hopefully that can be fixed - the Perl community would certainly like Ohloh to show recent activity.
Ohloh Analysis Summary
- Mostly written in Perl
- Very large, active development team
- Mature, well-established codebase
- Well-commented source code
- Artistic License may conflict with GPL
- Decreasing year-over-year development activity
Updated 18 Apr 2008 08:29 UTC
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6 months
ago
What's not to like?
by Chad Elliott
Ok. So Perl may have some deficiencies, but what language doesn't?
You can write very clean, readable code or you can write very dirty, undecipherable code. It just depends on how much time you have and your personal development abilities. This goes for almost any programming language.
I've worked with Python (blah!) and a little bit with Ruby, but Perl is still my favorite!
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about 1 year
ago
You do not have to like it,
by lego
A major city, several thousands users, a broken database, all backups corrupted, node is dead...
3 hours of perl... data recovered from broken backups, 2 more hours loading it, the data is reloaded, the node is live again.
It is neither elegant nor nice nor stylish but when looking for solutions it is probably the shortest path.
After years of coding in Perl I've never got to like the code I write, in fact, I often wonder:
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