Hello, On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 02:36pm GMT, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more > depth. I'm personally a little surprised if it's true that younger > people are unprepared to take a stab at hacking Perl. But since that's > the case, we have deeply embedded, critical stuff written in Perl > everywhere. "adequate" is but the tip of the iceberg. People keep saying it, but is it true? If you don't dig too deep, Perl and Python are really very similar in what it is easier and more difficult to use them for. The deeper philosophical differences aren't too relevant to maintaining Debian stuff. Even if people tend to have a strong preference for one over the other, they can develop curiosity for learning a bit more about the other in order to fix something (happened to me recently in the direction Perl->Python). -- Sean Whitton
