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.

Thanks,
Alexander

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 09:10 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

>
> I created my first website in 2000 using PERL and what I think was an
> early version of MySQL.
>
> Domains were $40 and hosting was around $25/mo or more.
>
> For a while I've been reading that PERL is dead.  Is that not true?  A
> quick search shows PERL is in a decline.
>
> Your Thoughts?
>
>
> On 2022-04-06 08:54, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > Bash +Perl, and a side of python will cover pretty much all of the
> > above. and a number of PHP applications are commonly managed this way.
> > popular because of its communication with MySQL
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:26 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss
> > <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Bash is great, and when you can call almost any other script from
> >> within it (including some python utilities) you can do some amazing
> >> things.
> >> Phil W
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:34 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
> >> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Its all I use right now for dev projects
> >>> Learned some stuff today on bash that was really cool.
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 07:23:11 PM MST, Keith Smith via
> >>> PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm a PHP developer.
> >>>
> >>> I've always liked Linux.  Bought a box set of RedHat, what I think
> >>> was
> >>>
> >>> version 4.2 around 97 or 98.
> >>>
> >>> Programming has always been the dominate part of Linux and PHP.
> >>>
> >>> I'm wondering if there is any value in making Linux the dominate
> >>> partner
> >>>
> >>> and programming the support partner.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts?
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