Perl is it used today?

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Well, I see little about Perl and I do not know much about the language, it is still used nowadays and can replace some other language like PHP or Ruby? I do not know exactly what Perl does but as I see little about it, and it seemed interesting to me, I wonder if there's any reason why it's not widely spoken if it's no longer used or just not worth it.     

asked by anonymous 01.08.2017 / 20:37

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Yes, it is quite used. But not as much as it was in the past. Part because the language is somewhat illegible, as it has become legendary, partly because the language did not evolve well, even taking almost decades to come out new version that was quite incompatible with the previous version, the result of an overly ambitious project that never worked out and several wrong decisions, partly because it was still in the niche of < in> script that has less appeal today than before, and finally part because other languages have been appearing better alternatives.

There are still some crazy ones who start at it. But the bulk of the use is of those who were already accustomed to it. Some adopt it because they get some open source software written on it and continue developing on it. It has some very good web software on it. Contrary to what many people think it can be used for almost anything, even GUI.

I do not really like these websites that measure popularity of languages but all show that language still has appeal:

One case that can be very enlightening is the trend of using GitHub . I do not like any criteria because it always hides uses that do not appear publicly. I'm sure people use COBOL more than they think, except that nobody posts anything about it, the query is made in the official documentation and it does not spread over the internet generating hype , it's all internal project, because launching books, do not exchange easy jobs in that area. But if you want to see in Perl code projects you can still be TOP 15 in active repositories and close to it in pushes . But it fits well into forks , issues and watchers .

One of the most used languages in Brazil is xBase . That is an umbrella for various dialects of a language. And a lot of people do not know this. So these statistics only show what they can see. Brazil is a different market. For example, Python seems popular in the world, but there's even a joke that Python programmer is always unemployed, which is an obvious overstatement ... he always knows another language to employ it:)

    
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