MCDuncanLab (@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social)

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Perl: 37 years old
Python: 34 years old

Text from a Wall Street Journal article: “But when it comes to full translation, the technology still has some room to mature, he said. It can technically rewrite code from an old language like Perl in a new one like Python, but it wouldn’t necessarily know how to write it as efficient code that takes advantage of all Python’s capabilities, he said. And that’s one big reason humans are staying in the loop, he said.”

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Alternative explanation, the author started coding with Perl so python seems much newer.

I mean for me articles published in the early 1990's are ancient history, but those in early 2000's are new, which coincides with when I got my PhD and started my postdoc.

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