im old as fuck and ive been using perl for way too long. since perl effectively has no future, which scripting language should I learn to stay modern? I've dabbled in python and haskell a little bit but i don't like FIOC and non c-style syntax. i've also written some ruby in the past and i find it slow and shitty. what do?
>>39
A true /prog/rider misuses the quote function and says he's going to test BBCode for the first time, even though ``he's been here since the beginning of world4ch''.
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Anonymous2012-11-19 9:16
>>37
Funny that, the benchmarks[1] seem to support my statements, which is no surprise since I based my position off of them.
>>44 >>35 wasn't me, but you wouldn't tell that I'm not a ``true /prog/rider'' from my other posts.
Not that there's such a thing as a ``true'' /prog/ rider now that most of its old culture has died off, kid.
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Anonymous2012-11-19 13:33
>>45
There's always new idiots coming in, scraping old shit, writing /prog/ between spoilers, saging, and using faggot quotes in a desperate attempt to fit in.
Everybody who was using tcl is abandoning it and moving towards python. I still have to use it though for ns2. Use python OP.You will get used to it.
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Anonymous2012-11-22 23:38
I've dabbled in python and haskell a little bit but i don't like FIOC and non c-style syntax.
If curly braces and semicolons everywhere are your thing, you can use that in haskell instead of indentation. Nobody actually does that, though.
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Anonymous2012-11-23 1:35
if you actually used Perl you'd know it has future. everything else pales in comparison, either slow as hell(ruby), badly designed(python) or just plain stupid(javascript). another thing is that they are constantly shaped for web shit and you know what happens( PHP )
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Anonymous2012-11-23 1:41
Perl 6 is not the continuation of Perl 5, 5 is going to live on on its own, they are both languages of the same family. It's a bad move though, i would've called it different, like, i don't know, "LarrystacheScript" or something.
i've been experimenting with using lua for cgi scripts and it works pretty well as a perl replacement. the code is shorter, cleaner, runs faster, and the only real drawback is the lack of a huge module library like CPAN, but real programmers don't need that shit anyway
>>54
TypeScript + JavaScript's new macros is almost as cool as Perl 6. But maybe that's because I like proto-OO. It's a shame almost nobody is putting structs into their languages these days. Maybe someone (maybe me) will write a Perl 6 module to support Rust's structs and impls.
>>57 the code is shorter, cleaner, runs faster
Runs faster for sure. Shorter and cleaner? Only if the Perl was very badly written and made virtually no use of those glorious CPAN modules.
I could see one or the other being true, or even neither. But both is unrealistic.