Le Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 02:36:51PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > 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.
The actual perl problem is that, since perl is very strict about backward compatibility, perl scripts written 10 or 20 years ago still work without requiring maintainance, hence they may appear to be abandonned. Rewriting such software in a language that require yearly maintainance does not simplify maintainance in the long run, quite the opposite. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
