From 64b4c096fb70f19813f7d7959110932e987845e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 11:10:18 +0200 Subject: fix typo --- gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi index 7ecb0ac3..913ea598 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the l => ./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: +So why is that? Once the de-facto standard super-glue language for the web nowadays seems to have a bad reputation. Often, people state: * Perl is a write-only language. Nobody can read Perl code. * Perl? Isn't it abandoned? It's still at version 5! @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ So it means that Perl and Raku now exist in parallel. They influence each other, => https://www.OpenBSD.org The OpenBSD Operating System => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23360338 Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation? -The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas `use strict;`, `use warnings;`, `use signatures;` and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) repetition. +The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas `use strict;`, `use warnings;`, `use signatures;` and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) reputation. => https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ Announcing Perl 7 => http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html What happened to Perl 7? (maybe have to use "use v7;") -- cgit v1.2.3