From 1efb0261dd3e323d70fe5a2db50f92e3c2fd9dad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 08:33:33 +0100 Subject: Publishing new version --- gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md index c9c99a64..59e655ff 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ # Perl is still a great choice -[![./2022-05-22-perl-is-still-a-valid-choice/regular_expressions.png](./2022-05-22-perl-is-still-a-valid-choice/regular_expressions.png)](./2022-05-22-perl-is-still-a-valid-choice/regular_expressions.png) +[![./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png)](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png) -> Published by Paul at 2022-05-28 +> Published by Paul at 2022-05-27 Perl (the Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a battle-tested, mature, multi-paradigm dynamic programming language. Note that it's not called PERL, neither P.E.R.L. nor Pearl. "Perl" is the name of the language and "perl" the name of the interpreter or the interpreter command. Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the last years as Google trends shows: -[![./2022-05-22-perl-is-still-a-valid-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg](./2022-05-22-perl-is-still-a-valid-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg)](./2022-05-22-perl-is-still-a-valid-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg) +[![./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg)](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg) So why is that? Once the de-facto standard super-glue language for the web nowadays seems to have a bad repetition. Often, people state: -- cgit v1.2.3