April 2018 Archives

Why do you have to be afraid of the programming language Perl 6? ... or not.

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In life or professional life, there are cycles of learning by starting over again or at least partially. If you are a good Perl 5 developer and you start Perl 6, you start again as a beginner. In my professional life, these cycles have never been longer than 7 years. That's why I'm not afraid of Perl 6.

Perl is being developed by community. So I do not need to worry about Perl disappearing from the market with the bankruptcy of a company at short notice. The community also has disadvantages, especially in marketing. The programming language Perl is…

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