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Perl Turns 34 - A Retrospective

Venerable Perl, a language that you either love or love to hate, has just had its 34th birthday. Because of that let's take a quick look at its recent past and the milestones that defined it.

If you missed it this birthday it happened on December 18th, I have to admit I missed it until I was notified by this HackerNews thread which records the initial commit by Larry Wall. Scouring through it you'll find the usual arguments; some are enthusiastic and wish Perl Happy Birthday while others claim that it's a dead language. Unfortunately that is the situation and has been as such for some years.

The problem is that not being popular is treated by many as synonymous to being dead. While admittedly not popular anymore, it couldn't be farther from dead.The proof of that fact are the regular version releases, the number of new modules added to CPAN every day, the events and gatherings, and a wealth of ideas for evolving the language like the addition of Futures, Ovid's new OO system Corinna or the plans for Perl7.

full article on i-programmer:

https://www.i-programmer.info/programming/perl/15105-perl-turns-34-a-retrospective.html



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