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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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@siracusa To be fair, Perl came preloaded with technical debt of the sort it’d normally take years to accrue

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