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Re: Perl 6 just hit
From:
Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
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Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:11:22 +1100
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On 30/12/16 20:04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> What you will here is Perl is dead, but the truth is most people use it on a daily basis and don't know it. Perl is still the swiss army chainsaw of scripting languages.

If you do an online transaction - somewhere between you and your bank,
you hit a perl script.

It's been said that the next financial crisis will be triggered by a
perl bug.

Even more seriously, stuff that absolutely must work, all the time,
every time and for more than a year at a time is written in perl.

Billion of dollars a month get moved around with perl scripts - and that
won't change anytime soon...

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Steven Haigh

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