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“Languages without automated garbage collection are getting out of fashion. The chance of running into all kinds of memory problems is gradually outweighing the performance penalty you have to pay for garbage collection. Another language that has had its day is Perl ...”
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I used to be a perl-for-everything-guy, but perl’s development seems to have come to a stand-still with Parrot being on the soon-to-be-released schedule for how many years now? Sad to see the swiss-army-knife of the web turning into a niche product ...
Posted by Tobias Hoellrich on 05/02/08 at 02:17 PM
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Java and Python for me. With JavaScript, HTML, and Flash taking up UI specific needs.
It’s weird how I just suddenly stopped writing Perl scripts a few years back.