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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Python is making headways in everything today including and especially where Perl was and is.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Networking for example. Cisco has web pages where they are using it for SDN dev.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Perl is legacy, but worth knowing if you ask me. In fact, the older programmers are retiring and unfortunately</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">dying off before they can transfer those valuable skills to the younger generations and Perl like Cobol is still in</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">use. I have even thought of getting a certification in it for opening doors into the Open Source dev side more.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.ciwcertified.com/ciw-certifications/web-development-series/perl-specialist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ciwcertified.com/ciw-certifications/web-development-series/perl-specialist</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As Steve Jobs would say: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." </div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 09:24:13 AM MST, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv8319881708"><div><div>Well, perl, like Java will always be useful. It might be in decline as in active number of GitHub projects, but like COBOL -- Perl will always be *somewhere* on a server. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>Thanks,<br clear="none">Alexander<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+</div></div><br clear="none"><div id="yiv8319881708yqt00279" class="yiv8319881708yqt6347753840"><div class="yiv8319881708gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv8319881708gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 09:10 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv8319881708gmail_quote"><br clear="none">
I created my first website in 2000 using PERL and what I think was an <br clear="none">
early version of MySQL.<br clear="none">
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Domains were $40 and hosting was around $25/mo or more.<br clear="none">
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For a while I've been reading that PERL is dead. Is that not true? A <br clear="none">
quick search shows PERL is in a decline.<br clear="none">
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On 2022-04-06 08:54, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br clear="none">
> Bash +Perl, and a side of python will cover pretty much all of the<br clear="none">
> above. and a number of PHP applications are commonly managed this way.<br clear="none">
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:26 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss<br clear="none">
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>> Bash is great, and when you can call almost any other script from<br clear="none">
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>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:34 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss<br clear="none">
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>>> Its all I use right now for dev projects<br clear="none">
>>> Learned some stuff today on bash that was really cool.<br clear="none">
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>>> On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 07:23:11 PM MST, Keith Smith via<br clear="none">
>>> PLUG-discuss <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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>>> I'm a PHP developer.<br clear="none">
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>>> I've always liked Linux. Bought a box set of RedHat, what I think<br clear="none">
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>>> version 4.2 around 97 or 98.<br clear="none">
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>>> Programming has always been the dominate part of Linux and PHP.<br clear="none">
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